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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 worshippers 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

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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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Finnish

Etymology

< Latin vesper

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋesper/, [ˈʋe̞s̠pe̞r]
  • Rhymes: -esper
  • Syllabification(key): ves‧per
  • Hyphenation(key): ves‧per

Noun

vesper

  1. vespers (evening service)
    Synonym: iltarukoushetki

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
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Latin

Etymology

More information PIE word ...

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 (genitive vesperī or vesperis); variously declined, 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.

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

Locative used in the sense "in the evening".

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Derived terms

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.
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Noun

vesper c

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

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

See also

  • tidegärd

References

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