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vesper

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See also: Vesper and Vësper

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Adjective

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vesper (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Evening.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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vesper m (plural vespers)

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

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Etymology

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< Latin vesper

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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vesper

  1. vespers (evening service)
    Synonym: iltarukoushetki

Declension

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Inflection of vesper (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative vesper vesperit
genitive vesperin vesperien
vespereiden
vespereitten
partitive vesperiä vespereitä
vesperejä
illative vesperiin vespereihin
singular plural
nominative vesper vesperit
accusative nom. vesper vesperit
gen. vesperin
genitive vesperin vesperien
vespereiden
vespereitten
partitive vesperiä vespereitä
vesperejä
inessive vesperissä vespereissä
elative vesperistä vespereistä
illative vesperiin vespereihin
adessive vesperillä vespereillä
ablative vesperiltä vespereiltä
allative vesperille vespereille
essive vesperinä vespereinä
translative vesperiksi vespereiksi
abessive vesperittä vespereittä
instructive vesperein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of vesper (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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

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  • 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.

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
locative vesperī
vespere
vesperīs
vesperibus

Locative used in the sense "in the evening".

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • 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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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Noun

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vesper c

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

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