vester

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; […]

From Latin vestīre.

• vestar

• IPA^(key): /βesˈter/

vester

1. to dress, clothe

Variant of vestro.

vester

1. your second-person masculine plural possessive determiner

• voster

From Proto-Italic *westeros.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɛs.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɛs.t̪er]

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, Virgil, Aeneid 1.573:

     “Urbem quam statuō vestra est; subdūcite nāvīs.”

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

• 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.

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

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
    

vester m

1. indefinite plural of vest (“waistcoat”)