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- Latin · derived fromnepōs, nepōtis“nephew”
- English todaynepoticidal
From nepoticide + -al, from oblique stem of Latin nepōs, nepōtis (“nephew”) + -icidal.
Words from the same roots
Latinnepōs all →
nepotismnepotarchy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.