vesper

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See also: Vesper and Vësper

English

Etymology

From Old French vespre, from Latin vesper (“evening star”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vesper (plural vespers)

  1. The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell
  2. (poetic) The evening.
  3. A vesper martini.
  4. A vesper bat.
    Almost all vespers are insect catchers.

Derived terms

Adjective

vesper (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Evening.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From vespa +‎ -er. Compare Occitan vespièr, French guêpier, Portuguese vespeiro, Spanish avispero, Romanian viespar, Italian vespaio, Friulian gjespâr.

Pronunciation

Noun

vesper m (plural vespers)

  1. wasp nest
  2. wasp group
  3. (colloquial) complicated mess

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Latin

Etymology

PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

From Proto-Italic *wesperos, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos), Old Church Slavonic вєчєръ (večerŭ) and Old Armenian գիշեր (gišer).

Pronunciation

Noun

vesper m (variously declined, genitive vesperī or vesperis); second declension, third declension

  1. the evening or vespers
  2. supper, dinner (evening meal)
  3. (by extension) the evening star
  4. (by extension) the West

Declension

  • This noun can be declined in two paradigms; in classical Latin prose, only the singular forms were used (plural forms are found post-Classically), and the second declension forms prevailed except for the ablative. The forms vespere and vesperī were both used to mean "in the evening".

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er) or third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative vesper vesperī
vesperēs
Genitive vesperī
vesperis 		vesperōrum
vesperum
Dative vesperō
vesperī 		vesperīs
vesperibus
Accusative vesperum
vesperem 		vesperōs
vesperēs
Ablative vespere
vesperō 		vesperīs
vesperibus
Vocative vesper vesperī
vesperēs

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

  • “vesper”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vesper”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vesper in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

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Noun

vesper c

  1. (Christianity) a vespers, a Vespers (evening service)
  2. a vesper (evening hymn)

Declension

Declension of vesper 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vesper vespern vesprar vesprarna
Genitive vespers vesperns vesprars vesprarnas

See also

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