Meaning of passer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sparrow
   declension-3, masculine
2. turbot
   declension-3, masculine
3. Equivalent to 'house sparrow': A bird of the species Passer domesticus, native to much of Eurasia, introduced in many other temperate environments.

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Examples

“Passer mortuus est meae puellae. Passer, deliciae meae puellae […]”

My girl's sparrow is dead. The sparrow, my girl's pet […]

“At contrā herbōsā piscēs luxantur harēnā ut scarus, ēpastās sōlus quī rūminat ēscās, fēcundumque genus mēnae lamyrusque smarisque atque immunda chromis, meritō vīlissima salpa atque avium phȳcis nīdōs imitāta sub undīs et squāmās tenuī suffūsus sanguine mullus, fulgentēs soleae candōre et concolor illīs passer et Hadriacō mīrandus lītore rhombus, tum leporēs lātī, tum mollēs tergore rānae […] On the other hand, fish that revel in the grassy sand such as the scar, the only one that chews over eaten up food, the prolific kind of the maena, lamyrus and smaris”

and the phycis that imitates the nests of birds under the waves and the mullet whose scales are suffused with tenous blood, and the sole flashing with whiteness and the turbot of the same colour, and the amazing flatfish on the Adriatic Shore, then the broad sea-hares, then the soft-bodied sea-frog […]

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