vesperae

Latin

Etymology 1

Substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”).

Noun

vesperae f pl (genitive vesperārum); first declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) vespers (evening prayer service)

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	vesperae
genitive	vesperārum
dative	vesperīs
accusative	vesperās
ablative	vesperīs
vocative	vesperae

Etymology 2

Noun

vesperae

1. inflection of vespera (“evening”):
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

References

• "vesperae", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)