hesternus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyésteros, equivalent to herī + -ter + -nus. Cognate with English yester- (cf. yesterday), German gestern (cf. Gestern) and Dutch gisteren.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hesternus (feminine hesterna, neuter hesternum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. yesterday's

Declension

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Descendants

  • Neapolitan: jesterza
  • Portuguese: hesterno
  • Spanish: hesterno

References

  • hesternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hesternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • hesternus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hesternus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • yesterday, to-day, tomorrow: dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus
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