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Webster 1913 Edition

Vesper

Ves′per

(vĕs′pẽr)
,
Noun.
[L., the evening, the evening star, the west; akin to Gr.
ἕσπερος
,
ἑσπέρα
, and perhaps to E.
west
. Cf.
Hesperian
,
Vespers
.]
The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
Shak.

Ves′per

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to the evening, or to the service of vespers;
as, a
vesper
hymn;
vesper
bells
.
Vesper sparrow
,
the grass finch. See under
Grass
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Vesper

VES'PER

,
Noun.
[L. This word and Hesperus are probably of one origin, and both from the root of west.]
1.
The evening star; Venus; also, the evening.
2.
Vespers, in the plural, the evening song or evening service in the Romish church.
Sicilian vespers, the era of the general massacre of the French in Sicily, or Easter evening, 1282, at the toll of the bell for vespers.

Definition 2024

Vesper

Vesper

See also: vesper

English

Proper noun

Vesper

  1. Hesperus, Venus, the evening star

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Latin vesper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛspɐ]

Noun

Vesper f ‎(genitive Vesper, plural Vespern)

  1. Vespers

Noun

Vesper f ‎(genitive Vesper, plural Vespern) or
Vesper n ‎(genitive Vespers, plural Vesper)

  1. afternoon snack

Declension

As feminine noun:

As neuter noun:

vesper

vesper

See also: Vesper

English

Noun

vesper ‎(plural vespers)

  1. The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell
  2. (poetic) evening

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

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

Noun

vesper m ‎(plural vespers)

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

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

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 ‎(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

This noun can be declined in two paradigms; in classical Latin prose, only the singular forms were used, and the second declension forms prevailed except for the ablative. The forms vespere and vesperī were both used to mean "in the evening".

Second declension, nominative singular in -er.
Case Singular Plural
nominative vesper vesperī
genitive vesperī vesperōrum
dative vesperō vesperīs
accusative vesperum vesperōs
ablative vesperō vesperīs
vocative vesper1 vesperī

1May also be vespere.

 Third declension, with locative.
Case Singular Plural
nominative vesper vesperēs
genitive vesperis vesperum
dative vesperī vesperibus
accusative vesperem vesperēs
ablative vespere vesperibus
vocative vesper vesperēs
locative vespere
vesperī 		vesperibus

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Descendants

References

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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