vespera

See also: véspera

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vesˈpera/

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• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: ves‧pe‧ra

Adjective

vespera (accusative singular vesperan, plural vesperaj, accusative plural vesperajn)

1. of or related to evening

   Antonym: matena

Related terms

• vespere (“in the evening”)
• vesperi (“to be evening”)
• vespero (“evening”)

Latin

Etymology

From vesper.

Noun

vespera f (genitive vesperae); first declension

1. evening, eventide

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vespera	vesperae
genitive	vesperae	vesperārum
dative	vesperae	vesperīs
accusative	vesperam	vesperās
ablative	vesperā	vesperīs
vocative	vespera	vesperae

Related terms

• vesper

Descendants

• Catalan: vespra
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vespera
  • Galician: véspera, víspora
  • Portuguese: véspera
• Old Spanish: viésperas, viespras
  • Spanish: víspera
• → Old High German: vespera
  • Middle High German: vesper
    • German: Vesper
    • Alemannic German: Vësper

References

• “vespera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vespera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vespera”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Noun

vespera f (plural vesperas)

1. obsolete spelling of véspera