Noun: passereau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | passereau |
| Plural m | passereaux |
Sample Sentences
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Déchiré par les serres d’un Aigle, un Lièvre poussait de longs gémissements. Un Passereau l’insultait (A Sparrow upbraided a Hare that had been pounced upon by an Eagle, and was sending forth piercing cries.) [1846, Phaedrus, Fables, sourced from https://teach-me-a-language.help/the-sparrow-and-the-hare-english-french/:]
Nouns inflected like passereau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French passerel, from Latin passer + French suffix -eau. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). See: Latin Nouns '
passer'.
Verbs referencing "passereau"
Spanish Nouns
pájaro.
Translations