vester

See also: Vester

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin vestīre, present active infinitive of vestiō.

Alternative forms

• vestar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βesˈter/

Verb

vester

1. to dress, clothe

Etymology 2

Variant of vestro.

Determiner

vester

1. your second-person masculine plural possessive determiner

Latin

Alternative forms

• voster

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *westeros.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯es.ter/, [ˈu̯ɛs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈves.ter/, [ˈvɛst̪er]

Determiner

vester (feminine vestra, neuter vestrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (possessive) your, yours, of you (plural)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.573:

     “Urbem quam statuō vestra est; subdūcite nāvīs.”

     “The city which I am building is yours; draw [your] ships ashore.” – Queen Dido

Usage notes

• The referent for vester is second person plural (for the pronoun vos). The gender and number of the particular form is determined by the noun possessed by the referent.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	vester	vestra	vestrum		vestrī	vestrae	vestra
Genitive	vestrī	vestrae	vestrī		vestrōrum	vestrārum	vestrōrum
Dative	vestrō		vestrō		vestrīs
Accusative	vestrum	vestram	vestrum		vestrōs	vestrās	vestra
Ablative	vestrō	vestrā	vestrō		vestrīs
Vocative	vester	vestra	vestrum		vestrī	vestrae	vestra
Locative	vestrī	vestrae	vestrī		vestrīs

References

• “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

vester m

1. indefinite plural of vest (“waistcoat”)