adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
hesternus
hesternus (feminine hesterna, neuter hesternum)
Classical[hɛsˈtɛr.nʊs]Ecclesiastical[esˈtɛr.nus]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- adjectiveyesterday's
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
diēī quī herī fuit; hesternā nocte = nocte quae herī fuit.hesternus -a -um — in Mille Verba, ch. Līmes: ad Carnuntum
quī herī fuithesternus -a -um — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 16
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hesternus | hesterna | hesternum |
| genitive | hesternī | hesternae | hesternī |
| dative | hesternō | hesternae | hesternō |
| accusative | hesternum | hesternam | hesternum |
| ablative | hesternō | hesternā | hesternō |
| vocative | hesterne | hesterna | hesternum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hesternī | hesternae | hesterna |
| genitive | hesternōrum | hesternārum | hesternōrum |
| dative | hesternīs | hesternīs | hesternīs |
| accusative | hesternōs | hesternās | hesterna |
| ablative | hesternīs | hesternīs | hesternīs |
| vocative | hesternī | hesternae | hesterna |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus
- yesterday, to-day, tomorrow.
hesternus, a, um, adj. hes, whence heri, analog. with hodiernus,
I. of yesterday, yesterday's:
disputatio hesterni et hodierni diei, Cic. de Or. 3, 21, 81; cf.: hesterno die, id. N. D. 2, 29, 73: hesterno sermone, id. Rep. 3, 12 fin.: die, id. Cat. 2, 3, 6: nocte Ov. H. 19, 72: sermone, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18: disputatione, id. Tusc. 2, 4, 10: panis, Cels. 1, 3: reliquiae, of yesterday, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 25: jus, Ter. Eun. 5, 4, 17: cena, Plin. Pan. 6, 3, 3; Juv. 9, 44: minutal, id. 14, 129: fercula, Hor. S. 2, 6, 105: vitia, id. ib. 2, 2, 78: ex potatione, Cic. Fragm. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 66; cf.: Iaccho (i. e. vino), Verg. E. 6, 15: mero, Just. 24, 8: corollae, Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 59: crines, i. e. not yet arranged, id. 1, 15, 5; so, coma, Ov. A. A. 3, 154: Lar, to whom sacrifice was made yesterday, Verg. A. 8, 542 Serv.: ignes suscitat, Ov. M. 8, 643.—Facete: Quirites, Romans of yesterday, i. e. slaves recently made free, Pers. 3, 106.—Absol.: hesternorum immemores, acta pueritiae recordari, Quint. 11, 2, 6.—In the abl. adverb., hesterno (sc. die), yesterday, Sisenn. ap. Charis. p. 180 P.; Aus. Epigr. 74, 1; Sulpic. Sev. Dial. 3, 1, 1; 3, 5, 1.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hesternus adj.
HES-, of yesterday, yesterday's : dies: disputatio: ius, T.: convivium, L.: fercula, H.: Iacchus (i. e. vinum), drunk yesterday , V.: Lar, worshipped yesterday , V.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *hesternos, *hesterinos, or *hestrinos, in any case a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰyes-ter- with apheresis of *dʰ- and *-y- from the initial consonant cluster *dʰǵʰy-. Equivalent to herī + -ter + -nus. Cognate with English yester-, German gestern and Dutch gisteren.
Borrowings
- Portuguesehesterno
- Spanishhesterno
- Englishhestern
Italo-Romance
- Neapolitanjesterza
In English words that came into English from hesternus
- hesternalhesternus