passerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɑːsə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpæsəɹ/
• 韻: -æsə(ɹ)

名詞

passer (plural passers)

1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
   • 2008, David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales:

     The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […]

2. One who passes something along; a distributor.

   a passer of counterfeit banknotes

3. (sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
   • 1991, Rex Mossop, The Moose That Roared, Sydney: Ironbark Press, page 157:

     A superb passer of the ball, we expected him to wipe the floor with the opposition.

   1. (American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
4. (chess, informal) A passed pawn.
5. (archaic) One who passes; a passer-by.
   • 1878, Henry James, The Europeans:

     There was a promise of it in the gorgeous purity of the western sky; there was an intimation in the mild, unimpertinent gaze of the passers of a certain natural facility in things.

   • 1904, National Magazine, volume 20, page 147:

     Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door.

6. (sociology) One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.
   • 2003, Brooke Kroeger, Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are:

     Explores the history, literature, and sociology of passing, and provides case studies of six individuals who are "passers," including a black man who passed as a white Jew and a lesbian naval officer who passed as straight.

   • 2014, Risa Bear, Homecomings, page 69:

     Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role […]

参考

アナグラム

• parses, sarpes, repass, Speras, spaers, Aspers, Serpas, spaser, Spares, prases, Spears, aspers, Arpses, Presas, presas, spears, sparse, spares

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈpas.sɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈpas.ser]

名詞

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

1. sparrow
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.3–4:

     Passer mortuus est meae puellae.
     Passer, deliciae meae puellae […]

     My girl's sparrow is dead.
     The sparrow, my girl's pet […]

2. turbot
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Halieutica 118–126:

     At contrā herbōsā piscēs luxantur harēnā
     ut scarus, ēpastās sōlus quī rūminat ēscās,
     fēcundumque genus mēnae lamyrusque smarisque
     atque immunda chromis, meritō vīlissima salpa
     atque avium phȳcis nīdōs imitāta sub undīs
     et squāmās tenuī suffūsus sanguine mullus,
     fulgentēs soleae candōre et concolor illīs
     passer et Hadriacō mīrandus lītore rhombus,
     tum leporēs lātī, tum mollēs tergore rānae […]

     On the other hand, fish that revel in the grassy sand
     such as the scar, the only one that chews over eaten up food,
     the prolific kind of the maena, lamyrus and smaris
     and the unclean chronic, the deservedly worthless salpa
     and the phycis that imitates the nests of birds under the waves
     and the mullet whose scales are suffused with tenous blood,
     and the sole flashing with whiteness and the turbot
     of the same colour, and the amazing flatfish on the Adriatic Shore,
     then the broad sea-hares, then the soft-bodied sea-frog […]

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

• “passer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “passer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “passer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449