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

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 (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.

Case	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