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Hesperus

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Hes⋅per⋅us

  [hes-per-uhs]
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–noun
an evening star, esp. Venus.
Also, Hesper.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L < Gk hésperos evening, western; akin to west, L vesper vesper
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Hes·per·us   (hěs'pər-əs)   
n.  The planet Venus in its appearance as the evening star.

[Middle English, from Latin, from Greek hesperos; see Hesperian.]
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Hesperus 
c.1374, poetic for "the evening star," from Gk. hesperos (aster) "western (star)." Hence also Hesperides (c.1590), from Gk., "daughters of the West," any of the nymphs, daughters of Hesperus, who guarded, with the aid of a dragon, the garden in which the golden apples grew, in the Isles of the Blest, at the western extremity of the earth.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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