vespers
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈvɛspɝz/
name
- A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong
noun
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.
- plural of vesper