vester (pluralvesters)

1. (law) The establishing of avested 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 thevester;[…]

FromLatinvestīre.

• vestar

• IPA^(key):/βesˈter/

vester

1. todress,clothe

Variant ofvestro.

vester

1. yoursecond-person masculine plural possessive determiner

• voster

FromProto-Italic*westeros.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈu̯es.ter/,[ˈu̯ɛs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈves.ter/,[ˈvɛst̪er]

vester (femininevestra,neutervestrum);first/second-declension determiner (nominative masculine singular in-er)

1. (possessive)your,yours, ofyou(plural)
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid1.573:

     “Urbem quam statuōvestra est; subdūcite nāvīs.”

     “The city which I am building isyours; draw [your] ships ashore.” – Queen Dido

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

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

• “vester”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vester”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vester inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • picture to yourselves the circumstances:ante oculos vestros (notvobis)res gestas proponite
    

vester m

1. indefiniteplural ofvest(“waistcoat”)