sparus

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See also: Sparus and ŝparus

Ido

Verb

sparus

  1. conditional of sparar

Latin

FWOTD – 23 March 2024

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“spear, a kind of tree”). Compare Proto-Germanic *speru (“spear”), Albanian shpardh (“Italian oak”).

Alternative forms

Noun

sparus m (genitive sparī); second declension

  1. hunting spear; a small missile weapon with a curved blade
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sparus sparī
genitive sparī sparōrum
dative sparō sparīs
accusative sparum sparōs
ablative sparō sparīs
vocative spare sparī
Synonyms

Etymology 2

sparus (gilt-head bream)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σπάρος (spáros, “annular seabream”).

Noun

sparus m (genitive sparī); second declension

  1. gilt-head bream; a kind of fish
Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sparus sparī
genitive sparī sparōrum
dative sparō sparīs
accusative sparum sparōs
ablative sparō sparīs
vocative spare sparī
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sparus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 578
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “sparus, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 638

Further reading

  • “sparus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sparus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sparus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sparus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

sparus m

  1. accusative plural of spars
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