The corpus record — Latin

vesperus

vesperus · adj

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Metamorphoses 18 · 3.37/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k

Densest 12 of 70 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vespĕrus — Lewis & Short

vespĕrus, a, um, adj.vespera,

I of or belonging to the evening, evening-: his horae rigandi matutina atque vespera, Plin. 19, 12, 60, § 183 (dub.; al. matutino atque vespera): tempus vesperum, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 15, 141; 1, 15, 151.

In the wild

vesperum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.13.8
vespera Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.11
vespera Plautus, Curculio 1.1
vespera Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.13
vespere Ausonius, Eclogarum Liber 3.25
vesperi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.31.p1

6 of 200 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.