vespers
English
noun
Definitions
- (Christianity) The sixth of the seven canonical canonical hours
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English vespers borrowed from Old French vespres derived from Latin vesper (evening star, evening).
Origin
Latin
vesper
Gloss
evening star, evening
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
夕, 晩
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- advesperate English
- vesperate English
- vespering English
- vesper Latin
- vesperugo Latin
- vespro Italian
- ἕσπερος Ancient Greek
- *wek(ʷ)speros Proto-Indo-European
- *wekʷsperos Proto-Indo-European
- Vesper Middle English
- vespers Middle English
- vespre Old French
- vespres Old French
- vespero Esperanto
- vespre Catalan, Valencian
- fescor Old Irish
- vesper Middle High German
- dhespër Albanian
- Vësper Alemannic German
- viaspro Dalmatian
- veîpre Bourguignon
- vèpe Picard