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6-letter words (3 found)

PERVES,PREVES,VESPER,

5-letter words (16 found)

EREVS,PEERS,PERES,PERSE,PERVE,PERVS,PREES,PRESE,PREVE,SERVE,SEVER,SPEER,SPREE,VEEPS,VEERS,VERSE,

4-letter words (19 found)

ERES,EREV,EVER,EVES,PEER,PEES,PERE,PERV,PREE,REES,REPS,REVS,SEEP,SEER,SERE,VEEP,VEER,VEES,VERS,

3-letter words (15 found)

ERE,ERS,EVE,PEE,PER,PES,PRE,REE,REP,RES,REV,SEE,SER,SEV,VEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

EE,ER,ES,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 59 words from vesper according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vesper

vesper

Etymology

From Old French vespre, from Latin vesper (“evening star”).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvɛspɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvɛspə/

Noun

vesper (plural vespers)

  1. The bell that summons worshipers to vespers; the vesper-bell
  2. (poetic) The evening.
  3. A vesper martini.
  4. A vesper bat.
    Almost all vespers are insect catchers.

Derived terms

  • vesper mouse
  • vesper sparrow
  • vespertide

Adjective

vesper (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Evening.

Anagrams

  • perves, preves

Catalan

Etymology

From vespa +‎ -er. Compare Occitan vespièr, French guêpier, Portuguese vespeiro, Spanish avispero, Romanian viespar, Italian vespaio, Friulian gjespâr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [bəsˈpe]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [vəsˈpe]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [vesˈpeɾ]

Noun

vesper m (plural vespers)

  1. wasp nest
  2. wasp group
  3. (colloquial) complicated mess

Related terms

  • vespa

Latin

Etymology

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) 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.

Derived terms

  • vesperāscit
  • vesperna
  • vespertīliō
  • vespertīnus
  • vesperūgō
  • vesperus

Related terms

  • vespera

Descendants

  • Dalmatian: viaspro
  • → Esperanto: vespero
  • Piedmontese: vespr, vésper
  • Lombard: vèsper
  • Italian: vespro
  • Sicilian: vèspiru
  • Old French: vespre, vespree
    • Middle French: vespre
      • French: vêpre
    • Norman: vêpe
    • Walloon: vesprêye
    • → English: vesper
    • ⇒ Old French: vespres (oblique plural)
      • French: vêpres
      • → Middle English: vespers, vespres
        • English: vespers
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: vespre
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: vésper
  • → Spanish: véspero
  • → Albanian: dhespër (or from Ancient Greek ἕσπερος (hésperos))
  • → Old Irish: fescor
    • Irish: feascar
    • Manx: fastyr
    • Scottish Gaelic: feasgar
  • → Welsh: gosber

References

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

Swedish

Noun

vesper c

  1. (Christianity) a vespers, a Vespers (evening service)
  2. a vesper (evening hymn)

Declension

See also

  • tidegärd

References

  • vesper in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • vesper in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • vesper in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org