vesper
English
Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#VESPER vespreCategory:English undefined derivations#VESPER, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#VESPER vesper (“evening star”)Category:English undefined derivations#VESPER.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɛspɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#VESPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɛspə/Category:English 2-syllable words#VESPERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#VESPERAudio (US): (file)
Noun
vesper (plural vespers)Category:English lemmas#VESPERCategory:English nouns#VESPERCategory:English countable nouns#VESPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER
- The bell that summons worshippers to vespers; the vesper-bell.
- (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#VESPER) The evening.
- 1797–1798 (date written; revised 1817), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts.”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, page 7:
- In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, / It perch'd for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, / Glimmered the white Moon-shine.Category:English terms with quotations#VESPER
- A vesper martini.
- A vesper bat.
- Almost all vespers are insect catchers.Category:English terms with usage examples#VESPER
Derived terms
Adjective
vesper (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#VESPERCategory:English adjectives#VESPERCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#VESPERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER
- (poeticCategory:English poetic terms#VESPER) Evening.
- 1908, James Ryder Randall, “On the Rampart”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 28:
- On Sumter’s rampart, that sweet eve, / I heard the vesper bugle play […]Category:English terms with quotations#VESPER
Anagrams
Category:en:Time#VESPERCatalan
Etymology
From vespa + -erCategory:Catalan terms suffixed with -er#VESPER. Compare Occitan vespièr, French guêpier, Portuguese vespeiro, Spanish avispero, Romanian viespar, Italian vespaio, Friulian gjespâr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [bəsˈpe]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [vəsˈpe]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [vesˈpeɾ]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#VESPERAudio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
vesper m (plural vespers)Category:Catalan lemmas#VESPERCategory:Catalan nouns#VESPERCategory:Catalan countable nouns#VESPERCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER
- wasp nest
- wasp group
- (colloquialCategory:Catalan colloquialisms#VESPER) complicated mess
Related terms
Finnish
Etymology
< LatinCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from Latin#VESPERCategory:Finnish terms derived from Latin#VESPER vesper
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋesper/, [ˈʋe̞s̠pe̞r]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#VESPERCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#VESPER
- Rhymes: -esperCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/esper#VESPERCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/esper/2 syllables#VESPER
- Syllabification(key): ves‧per
- Hyphenation(key): ves‧per
Noun
vesperCategory:Finnish lemmas#VESPERCategory:Finnish nouns#VESPERCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER
- vespers (evening service)
- Synonym: iltarukoushetki
Declension
| 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. | ||
Latin
Etymology
| PIE word |
|---|
| *wek(ʷ)speros |
From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#VESPERCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#VESPER *wesperos, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#VESPER *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)Category:Latin lemmas#VESPERCategory:Latin nouns#VESPERCategory:Latin nouns with multiple declensions#VESPERCategory:Latin second declension nouns#VESPERCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#VESPERCategory:Latin third declension nouns#VESPERCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the third declension#VESPERCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Latin masculine nouns#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER; variously declined, second declension, third declension
- the evening or vespers
- supper, dinner (evening meal)
- (by extension) the evening starCategory:la:Astronomy#VESPER
- (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.
| 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 | — |
Locative used in the sense "in the evening".
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Dalmatian: viaspro
- → Esperanto: vespero
- Piedmontese: vespr, vésper
- Lombard: vèsper
- Istriot: bésper
- Italian: vespro
- Sicilian: vèspiru
- Old French: vespre, vespree
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: vespre
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Portuguese: vésper
- → Spanish: véspero
- → Albanian: dhespër (or from Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos))
- → Old Irish: fescor
- → Welsh: gosber
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.
Swedish
Noun
vesper cCategory:Swedish lemmas#VESPERCategory:Swedish nouns#VESPERCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#VESPERCategory:Swedish common-gender nouns#VESPERCategory:Pages with entries#VESPERCategory:Pages with 5 entries#VESPER
- (ChristianityCategory:sv:Christianity#VESPER) a vespers, a Vespers (evening service)
- a vesper (evening hymn)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | vesper | vespers |
| definite | vespern | vesperns | |
| plural | indefinite | vesprar | vesprars |
| definite | vesprarna | vesprarnas |
See also
References
- “vesper”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “vesper”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “vesper”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)