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vespers en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈvɛspɝz/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us. Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only, uncountable) The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
  2. (form-of, plural) plural of vesper
    form of vesper
  3. (euphemistic, uncountable) A massacre

Deriveds

Sicilian Vespers · Asiatic Vespers

Relateds

evensong · smokefall

Translations (18)

pl nieszpory (evening canonical hour) · mk ве́черна (evening canonical hour) · pt vésperas (evening canonical hour) · kw gosper (evening canonical hour) · cy gosber (evening canonical hour) · la vesperae (evening canonical hour) · fr vêpres (evening canonical hour) · fi iltahartaus (evening canonical hour) · kw gwesper (evening canonical hour) · hu vesperás (evening canonical hour) · de Vesper (evening canonical hour) · sv vesper (evening canonical hour) · el Εσπερινός (evening canonical hour) · it vespri (evening canonical hour) · fi vesper (evening canonical hour) · ru вече́рня (evening canonical hour) · fi iltajumalanpalvelus (Luth.) (evening canonical hour) · hu vecsernye (evening canonical hour)

wikipedia: Théodore Reinach