vespero

Esperanto

vespero ĉe Hobart, Tasmania

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps?

Proto-Indo-European *wek⁽ʷ⁾speros

Proto-Italic *wesperos

Latin vesperbor.

Esperanto vespero

Borrowed from Latin vesper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vesˈpero/

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: ves‧pe‧ro

Noun

vespero (accusative singular vesperon, plural vesperoj, accusative plural vesperojn)

1. evening

   Antonym: mateno

   • 1927, L. L. Zamenhof, transl., La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible]‎^[1] (hardcover), London; Edinburgh: British and Foreign Bible Society; Scottish Bible Society, →ISBN, page 5:

     Kaj estis vespero, kaj estis mateno, unu tago.

     And there was an evening, and there was a morning, a day

Derived terms

• amuzvespero (“evening of entertainment; evening party, soirée; fun night”)
• antaŭvespero (“dusk, twilight; the previous evening”)
• bonan vesperon
• ĉi-vespere
• ĉiuvespere (“every evening”)
• vespera (“of or related to evening”)
• vespere (“in the evening”)
• vesperfesto (“soirée”)
• vesperi (“to be evening”)
• vesperiĝo (“sunset, dusk, sundown, nightfall”)
• vespermanĝi (“to eat dinner”)
• vespermanĝo (“dinner”)
• vesperrobo (“evening dress”)
• vesperstelo (“evening star”)

Related terms

• vesperto (“bat”)

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto vespero, from Latin vesper, from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷsperos, and to some extent English vesper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vesˈpero/
• Hyphenation: ves‧pe‧ro

Noun

vespero (plural vesperi)

1. evening

Derived terms

• bonvespero, bona vespero (“good evening”)
• cavespere (“this evening”)
• pasar la vespero (“to spend the evening”)
• vesperala (“evening, vesper”)
• vespere (“in the evening”)
• vesperfesto, vesperkunveno (“evening party, soiree”)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛs.pe.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɛspero
• Hyphenation: vè‧spe‧ro

Proper noun

vespero ?

1. (astronomy) Venus, evening star, Hesperus, Vesper
2. (poetic) vesper, sunset, evening
   • 1883, Giosuè Carducci, San Martino:

     tra le rossastre nubi, / stormi d'uccelli neri, / com'esuli pensieri, / nel vespero migrar.

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Related terms

• vespro

Anagrams

• provese

Latin

Noun

vesperō

1. dative/ablative singular of vesper