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English

Noun

vester (plural vesters)

  1. (law) The establishing of a vested interest.
    • 1845, England. Court of Common Pleas, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of ... (page 374)
      The remainder having once vested in the son of the fourth daughter, it cannot divest by any subsequent event. This is not one of the cases in which a remainder may open, to let in interests accruing since the vester; […]

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin vestīre.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βesˈter/

Verb

vester

  1. to dress, clothe

Etymology 2

Variant of vestro.

Determiner

vester

  1. your second-person masculine plural possessive determiner

Ladin

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin essere[1], from Latin esse.

Verb

vester

  1. (Gherdëina, copulative) to be
    L ie bel a vester a cësa. ― It's nice to be home.
    Tu ies n talian. ― You are Italian.
    Tu ies bela. ― You are beautiful.
  2. (Gherdëina, auxiliary) Used with as an auxiliary in the conjugation of some verbs, before their past participle.
    Ie son jit. ― I went, I had gone.
    Ël ie ruà a cësa. ― He has come home.
    Ëila ie nasciuda inier. ― She was born yesterday.
  3. (Gherdëina, impersonal) to denote time, day, or date
    L ie la doi daduman. ― It is two o'clock in the morning.
    Ncuei 'ie lundi aujourd'hui. ― It is Monday today.
    L ie auril. ― It is April.
  4. all reflexive verbs
    Ëi se à puzenà i dënz. ― They brushed their teeth.

Conjugation

  • This table shows the conjucation in the Ladin of Gherdëina. The conjugation in other varieties of Ladin may be similar but not identical.
Conjugation of vester (irregular, suppletive)
infinitive vester
auxiliary verb — gerund vester
past participle stat
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie tu ël/ëila nëus vo ëi/ëiles
present son ies ie son sëis ie
imperfect fove foves fova fan fais fova
future saré sares sarà saron sarëis sarà
subjunctive che ie che tu che ël/ëila che nëus che vo che ëi/ëiles
present sonse sibes sibe sonse sëise sibe
imperfect fosse fosses foss, fossa fussan fussais foss, fossa
imperative – tu – nëus vo –
— sibes — — sëise —

Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Wörterbuch der Grödner Mundart.- (Schlern-Schriften ; 23) - Arcangjul Lardschneider [1]. Teßmann

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Derived from Proto-Italic *westeros.

    Pronunciation

    Determiner

    vester (feminine vestra, neuter vestrum); first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative

    1. (possessive) your, yours, of you (plural)
      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.573:
        “Urbem quam statuō vestra est; subdūcite nāvīs.”
        “The city which I am building is yours; draw [your] ships ashore.” – Queen Dido

    Usage notes

    • The referent for vester is second person plural (for the pronoun vos). The gender and number of the particular form is determined by the noun possessed by the referent.

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er), with locative.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative vester vestra vestrum vestrī vestrae vestra
    genitive vestrī vestrae vestrī vestrōrum vestrārum vestrōrum
    dative vestrō vestrae vestrō vestrīs
    accusative vestrum vestram vestrum vestrōs vestrās vestra
    ablative vestrō vestrā vestrō vestrīs
    vocative vester vestra vestrum vestrī vestrae vestra
    locative vestrī vestrae vestrī vestrīs

    References

    • “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “vester”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “vester”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    vester m

    1. indefinite plural of vest (“waistcoat”)