passer – Latin noun declension

Noun: passer
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	passer
Plural	passerēs

Genitive

Singular	passeris
Plural	passerum

Dative

Singular	passerī
Plural	passeribus

Accusative

Singular	passerem
Plural	passerēs

Ablative

Singular	passere
Plural	passeribus

Vocative

Singular	passer
Plural	passerēs

Sample Sentences

Passer mortuus est meae puellae.
Passer, deliciae meae puellae[…] (My girl's sparrow is dead.

The sparrow, my girl's pet […]) [c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.3–4]
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 tenuous 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 […]) [43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovidius, Halieutica 118–126]

Nouns inflected like passer

zōstēr, saphōn, cosmocratōr, colophōn, acipēnser, Ichneumōn, Lūcipōr, Hibēr, Sīrēn, glēchōn, camptēr, nymphōn, sphinctēr, caracter, Tryphōn, ānser, prōcōnsul, trochantēr, ◻, ēr, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Of uncertain origin. Some theories:
2. * From Proto-Italic *passros with a declension change from second to third, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Related to penna.
3. * From a presumed Proto-Indo-European *sparas, related to *spḗr (“sparrow”).

Verbs referencing "passer"

Spanish Nouns pájaro, English Nouns passerine, Italian Nouns passero, Romanian Nouns pasăre, Portuguese Nouns pássaro, Asturian Nouns páxaru, French Nouns passereau, Catalan Nouns pàssera.