vespers

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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.

24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: vêpres — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• German: Vesper — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Old Irish: fescor — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Italian: vespro — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Polish: nieszpory — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Spanish: vísperas — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Welsh: gosber — A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening
• Cornish: gosper — evening canonical hour
• Cornish: gwesper — evening canonical hour
• Finnish: vesper — evening canonical hour
• Finnish: iltahartaus — evening canonical hour
• Finnish: iltajumalanpalvelus (Luth.) — evening canonical hour
• French: vêpres — evening canonical hour
• German: Vesper — evening canonical hour
• Greek: Εσπερινός (Esperinós) — evening canonical hour
• Hungarian: vecsernye — evening canonical hour
• Hungarian: vesperás — evening canonical hour
• Italian: vespri — evening canonical hour
• Latin: vesperae — evening canonical hour
• Macedonian: ве́черна (véčerna) — evening canonical hour
• Polish: nieszpory — evening canonical hour
• Portuguese: vésperas — evening canonical hour
• Russian: вече́рня (večérnja) — evening canonical hour
• Welsh: gosber — evening canonical hour