Masculine

pássaro

Sentences

Meaning

Pássaro com ninho , fácil de encontrar .

Bird with nest, easy to find.

O advogado entre os advogados parece um
1

pássaro entre gatos .

The lawyer among lawyers looks like a bird among cats.

O pássaro velho
🧓

não
🚫

entra na gaiola .

The old bird does not enter the cage.

Um
1

jovem empresário andando na rua , enquanto um
1

pássaro preto voa na frente dele .

A young businessman walks down the street, while a black bird flies in front of him.

Estava tudo bem
🆗

; ele ligaria assim que um
1

pássaro fosse enterrado .

It was all right; he would call as soon as a bird was buried.

(masculine) passerine (any bird of the order Passeriformes)
(colloquial, masculine, proscribed) bird (any member of the class Aves, especially a small one)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpa.sa.ɾu/

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with English

Cognate with Spanish

Cognate with Romanian

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese passaro, from Vulgar Latin *passarum, from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare English passerine, Spanish pájaro, Dalmatian paserain, Romanian pasăre.