The corpus record — Latin

passer

passer · m

a sparrow

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Where it lives

Carmina 5 · 3.89/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 2 · 3.76/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 4 · 1.76/10k
De Divinatione 4 · 1.45/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 25 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. passer — Lewis & Short

passer, ĕris, m.for panser, from pando; cf. anser.

I Lit., a sparrow, Cic. Fin. 2, 23, 75; cf. Plin. 10, 36, 52, § 107; 10, 38, 54, § 111; 18, 17, 45, § 158; 30, 15, 49, § 141; Cic. Div. 2, 30, 63; 1, 33, 72; Cat. 2, 1 sq.; 3, 3 sq.; Juv. 9, 54; Mart. 11, 6, 16; Juv. 6, 8; Vulg. Lev. 14. 4.—As a term of endearment: meus pullus passer, mea columba, mi lepus, Plaut. Cas. 1, 50.—

II Transf.

A Passer marinus. an ostrich (marinus, because brought from a distance by sea), Plaut. Pers. 2, 2, 17; Aus. Ep. 11, 7; Fest. p. 222 Müll.—In this signif. also passer alone, Inscr. Grut. 484, 6.—

B A seafish, a turbot, Plin. 9, 20, 36, § 72; Ov. Hal. 125; Hor. S. 2, 8, 29; Col. 8, 16, 7.

2. Passer — Lewis & Short

Passer, ĕris, m.,

I a Roman surname, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 2.

3. passer — Walde–Hofmann

passer (-ar), -eris m. „Sperling“; auch „Blaudrossel“ (Plaut., Catull usw., Schuster WSt. 46,958); „Art Platt£sch, Stachelflunder*; . marinus „Strauß“; vlt. und rom. „Vogel® (Niedermann Mnemos. , 1936, 276) (seit Pl£, rom.; passerculus m. weit. Plt. [Kosewort; -o f. Aur. Fronto], pasesrinus [-ar-] seit Pompon., Passerilia CIL. VI 4228; vgl. Cogn. PasserméD) :.— unerkl, vl. Schallwort, Nicht zu nhd, Spatz (Vanidek … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. passer, p. 1167]

In the wild

passere Martial, Epigrammata 1.109.1
passerum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.11.p1
passerum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.3.p2
passeres Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.5.28
passer Tertullian, De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1
passerem Catullus, Carmina lyrics.3.15

6 of 62 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. passer (scan p. 510; entry #8333).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. passer (scan p. 1167; entry #1963). Root candidates: *pet-.

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