vespers

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈvɛspɝz/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service plural,plural-only,uncountable
  2. plural of vesper form-of,plural
  3. A massacre euphemistic,uncountable

词汇关系

衍生词
Sicilian Vespers Asiatic Vespers
相关词
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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