vesper
vesper uit.-lat.
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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯es.per/, [ˈu̯ɛs̠pɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈves.per/, [ˈvɛsper]
Noun
vesper m (variously declined, genitive vesperī or vesperis); second declension, third declension
- the evening or vespers
- supper, dinner (evening meal)
- (by extension) the evening star
- (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. The forms vespere and vesperī were both used to mean "in the evening".
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er) or third-declension noun.