ἕσπερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *wésperos, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros. Cognates include Latin vesper, Old Armenian գիշեր (gišer) and Old Church Slavonic вєчєръ (večerŭ).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ἕσ‧πε‧ρος

Adjective

ἕσπερος • (hésperos) m or f (neuter ἕσπερον); second declension

1. of or at evening
2. western

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Albanian: dhespër (or from Latin vesper)

Noun

ἕσπερος • (hésperos) m (genitive ἑσπέρου); second declension

1. evening
2. the evening star, Venus (shortened form of ἕσπερος ἀστήρ (hésperos astḗr))

Inflection

Further reading

• “ἕσπερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἕσπερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἕσπερος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἕσπερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἕσπερος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἕσπερος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • evening idem, page 285.
  • hesperus idem, page 398.
  • western idem, page 974.