passero

IPA: pɑsˈɛroʊ

Root Word: Passero

Examples of "passero" in Sentences

Be this, however, as it may, none of these please me so much as the passero solitario.
Nobody knows what a bird can do in the way of song until he has heard a passero solitario.
The suffix is often diminutive. auc, a gander. aucat, gosling. passero, sparrow. passerat, small sparrow. ” au, ” alo.
Catullus’s Lesbia, whose immortal passer Butler felt sure was also a passero solitario, she had the misfortune to lose her pet.
There was also music of another kind coming from a passero solitario (the blue rock thrush) who was hanging in a cage in a doorway.
Here too I heard, or thought I heard, the song of that most beautiful of all bird songsters, the passero solitario, or solitary sparrow-if it is a sparrow, which I should doubt.