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Dalmatian
Etymology 1
From Latin vestīre.
Pronunciation
Verb
vester
- to dress, clothe
Etymology 2
Variant of vestro.
Determiner
vester
- your second-person masculine plural possessive determiner
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *westeros.
Pronunciation
Determiner
vester (feminine vestra, neuter vestrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- (possessive) your, yours, of you (plural)
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.573:
- “Urbem quam statuō vestra est; subdūcite nāvīs.”
- “The city which I am building is yours; draw ships ashore.” – Queen Dido
Usage notes
- The referent for vester is second person plural (for the pronoun vos). The gender and number of the particular form is determined by the noun possessed by the referent.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.
References
- “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
vester m
- indefinite plural of vest (“waistcoat”)