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ἕσπερος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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PIE word
*wek(ʷ)speros

From Proto-Hellenic *wésperos, from Proto-Indo-European *wek(ʷ)speros (evening). Cognates include Latin vesper, Old Armenian գիշեր (gišer), and Old Church Slavonic вєчєръ (večerŭ).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ἕσ‧πε‧ρος

Adjective

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ἕσπερος (hésperosm or f (neuter ἕσπερον); second declension

  1. of or at evening
  2. western

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Albanian: dhespër (or from Latin vesper)

Noun

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ἕσπερος (hésperosm (genitive ἑσπέρου); second declension

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

Inflection

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References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἕσπερος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 470-1

Further reading

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