vespers

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.

noun

  1. (Christianity) The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service

noun

  1. plural of vesper

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