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Vesper

Vesper · m

the evening

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Georgicon 6 · 4.24/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Ars Amatoria 2 · 1.34/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
Jugurtha 2 · 0.94/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vesper — Lewis & Short

vesper, ĕris and ĕri (in class. prose mostly m. (

acc. vesperum, and abl. vespere, or adverb. vesperi; the plur. not used),

I neutr., Varr. L. L. 7, § 50 and 9, § 73 Müll. acc. to Lachm.) [Gr. e(/speros, e(spe/ra], the evening, even, eve, even-tide.

I Lit.: jam diei vesper erat, Sall. J. 52, 3; 106, 2: vesper fit (late Lat. for advesperascit), Vulg. Matt. 14, 15; 16, 2; 26, 20: ad vesperum, Cic. Lael. 3, 12; id. Fin. 2, 28, 92 Madv.; 3, 2, 8; Caes. B. C. 1, 3; id. B. G. 1, 26: sub vesperum, towards evening, id. ib. 2, 33; 5, 58; 7, 60; id. B. C. 1, 42.—Prov.: nescis, quid vesper serus vehat, the title of a satire by Varro, Gell. 13, 11, 1; Macr. S. 1, 7; cf.: denique, quid vesper serus vehat, Verg. G. 1, 461: cum quid vesper ferat, incertum sit, Liv. 45, 8: de vesperi suo vivere, on his own supper, i. e. to be one's own master, Plaut. Mil. 4, 2, 5; cf. id. Rud. 1, 2, 91.—

B Esp., abl. adverb., in the evening.

1 Form vespere: primo vespere, Caes. B. C. 2, 43: litteras reddidit a. d. VIII. Id. Mart. vespere, Cic. Att. 11, 12, 1.—

2 Form vesperi: cum ad me in Tusculanum heri vesperi venisset Caesar, Cic. de Or. 2, 3, 13; id. Ac. 1, 1, 1; id. Mil. 20, 54; Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 62; id. Mil. 2, 5, 29; id. Rud. 1, 2, 91; Ter. And. 4, 4, 29: neque tam vesperi revortor, so late, id. Heaut. 1, 1, 15: primā vesperi (sc. horā), Caes. B. C. 1, 20.—

II Transf.

A The evening-star, Plin. 2, 8, 6, § 36; Verg. G. 1, 251: vespero surgente, Hor. C. 2, 9, 10: puro Vespero, id. ib. 3, 19, 26.—

B The West, Occident, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 28; id. M. 1, 63: vespere ab atro, Verg. A. 5, 19.—Hence, for the inhabitants of the West, Occidentals, Sil. 3, 325.

2. vesper — Walde–Hofmann

vesper, -a, -um „zum Abend gehórig", Subst. vesper, -eri m. und vespera, -ae f. (sc. hora) „Abend“, vesper, -eris m. (Plaut. Mil. 995 qui de vesperi vivat suö, Rud. 181, vgl. cancer, cancert usw., Ernout-Meillet? 1097) (seit Enn. und Plaut., rom. , Vesper"), vesperna, -ae f. „Abendessen“ (Plaut, [vgl. Paul. Fest. p. 368], rom. „Nachmittag“), vespertinus, -a, -um „abendlich* (seit Cic., rom., davon vespertinälis, -e … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vesper, p. 1678]

In the wild

6 of 38 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uesper (scan p. 752; entry #12568).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vesper (scan pp. 1678-1679; entry #3220). Root candidates: *weapero-, *yoiksero-, *vespero-.

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