different between vespers vs gloaming

English

Etymology

From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Latin vesper (“evening star”).

Noun

vespers (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) The sixth of the seven canonical hours

Related terms

• smokefall

Noun

vespers

1. plural of vesper

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vespres

Etymology

From Old French vespres, from Latin vesper (“evening star”).

Noun

vespers (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) The sixth of the seven canonical hours.
2. (Christianity) The liturgical service celebrated at this time.

Descendants

• English: vespers

See also

• Vesper

References

• “vesper, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 14 June 2018.

English

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English gl?mung, from Old English gl?m (“twilight”); synchronically gloom +? -ing. Related to glow.

The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English gl?mung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ? was shortened in the compound ?fen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject gl?mung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English gl?ming, modern English gloaming."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l??.m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??lo?.m??/
• Rhymes: -??m??

Noun

gloaming (plural gloamings)

1. (poetry, Scotland, Northern England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, vespers; see also Thesaurus:twilight

   Antonyms: daytime, daylight, nighttime, darkness
2. (obsolete) Sullenness; melancholy.

   Synonyms: crepuscule, glooming, misery, sadness, sorrow, woe

Translations

Verb

gloaming

1. present participle of gloam

References