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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ellipsis of ἑσπέρᾱ ὥρᾱ (hespérā hṓrā, “time of evening”), from ἕσπερος (hésperos, “of evening, western”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hes.pé.raː/ → /esˈpe.ra/ → /esˈpe.ra/
Noun
ἑσπέρᾱ • (hespérā) f (genitive ἑσπέρᾱς); first declension
- evening
- the west
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἑσπέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἑσπέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἑσπέρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2073 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press