• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

    The word itself comes from from the Italian word for “nephew”, because of a trend of “nephews” of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes’ illegitimate sons).