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6-letter words (9 found)

ASPERS,PARSES,PASSER,PRASES,REPASS,SPAERS,SPARES,SPARSE,SPEARS,

5-letter words (25 found)

APERS,APRES,APSES,ARSES,ASPER,PARES,PARSE,PASES,PASSE,PEARS,PRASE,PRESA,PRESS,RAPES,RASES,RASPS,RASSE,REAPS,SASER,SEARS,SPAER,SPAES,SPARE,SPARS,SPEAR,

4-letter words (30 found)

APER,APES,APSE,ARES,ARSE,ASPS,EARS,ERAS,PARE,PARS,PASE,PASS,PEAR,PEAS,RAPE,RAPS,RASE,RASP,REAP,REPS,SAPS,SARS,SEAR,SEAS,SEPS,SERA,SERS,SPAE,SPAR,SPAS,

3-letter words (26 found)

APE,ARE,ARS,ASP,ASS,EAR,EAS,ERA,ERS,ESS,PAR,PAS,PEA,PER,PES,PRE,RAP,RAS,REP,RES,SAE,SAP,SAR,SEA,SER,SPA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AE,AR,AS,EA,ER,ES,PA,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of passer

passer

Etymology

pass +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːsə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpæsəɹ/
  • Rhymes: -æsə(ɹ)

Noun

passer (plural passers)

  1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
  2. One who passes something along; a distributor.
  3. (sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
    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.
  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.

Translations

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Anagrams

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Passer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pasər/, [ˈpʰasɐ]

Noun

passer c (singular definite passeren, plural indefinite passere)

  1. compass, pair of compasses
  2. dividers
  3. calipers
Inflection

See also

  • passer on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Etymology 2

See passere (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paseːr/, [pʰaˈseɐ̯ˀ]

Verb

passer or passér

  1. imperative of passere

Dutch

Etymology

From passen (“to measure a size”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑsər

Noun

passer m (plural passers, diminutive passertje n)

  1. compass (device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper)

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: passer
  • → Papiamentu: paser
  • → Saramaccan: pása

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.se/, /pɑ.se/

Verb

passer

  1. to go past
  2. to cross (a border)
  3. (law) to pass
    passer une loi ― to pass a law
  4. to spend (time)
    J’ai passé les vacances en Espagne. ― I spent the holidays in Spain.
    J’ai passé une splendide soirée chez toi. ― I had a great evening at your place.
  5. to publish (a newspaper)
  6. (transitive) to take, to sit (an exam or test)
    J’ai réussi l’examen que j’avais passé en avril. ― I passed the exam that I took in April.
  7. (intransitive) to pass (an exam or test)
    Il est passé à l’examen. ― He passed the exam.
  8. (dated) (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)
    Il a passé l’examen. ― He passed the exam.
  9. (public transportation) to run
    Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes. ― The train runs every 20 minutes.
  10. to exceed (a limit)
  11. to percolate
  12. to hand down, to pass on
  13. to be allowed
  14. (intransitive) to pass, to go (between two entities)
  15. (transitive) to show (a movie)
  16. to go up (a grade)
  17. to shift (change gear)
    1. to go down
    2. to go up
  18. to stop by, to pop in
    Il est passé nous voir. ― He stopped by to see us.
  19. to pass away, to die
  20. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk)
  21. (television) to show (be on television)
  22. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)
  23. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton)
  24. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)
  25. (transitive) to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)
    • 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN:
  26. to wipe, rub
  27. to skip a go
  28. to put (make something undergo something)
  29. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn)
  30. (reflexive) to take place, to happen, to come to pass
    Qu’est-ce qui s’est passé ici ? ― What happened here?
  31. (reflexive, for time) to go by
  32. (reflexive, transitive with de) to do without
  33. to don
    Il passa son pantalon. ― He put on his pants.
  34. (transitive with pour) to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for
    faire passer quelqu’un pour quelque chose ― to make someone out to be something
    se faire passer pour ― to pass oneself off as, to pose as, to impersonate

Usage notes

  • This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (reflexive, to happen): se produire, arriver

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Alemannic German: passiere
  • → German: passieren
  • Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)

Further reading

  • “passer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • pressa

Ladin

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

Verb

passer

  1. to proceed

Conjugation

  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *passros with a declension change from second to third, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Related to penna.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ser/, [ˈpäs̠ːɛr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpas.ser/, [ˈpäsːer]

Noun

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

  1. sparrow
  2. turbot

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

  • passercula, passerculus
  • passerīnus

Descendants

References

  • “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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French passer.

Verb

passer

  1. to pass; to go by

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

  • French: passer
    • → Alemannic German: passiere
    • → German: passieren
    • Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)

References

  • passer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

passer

  1. imperative of passere
  2. present of passe

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

Verb

passer

  1. to pass; to pass by

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • Middle French: passer
    • French: passer
      • → Alemannic German: passiere
      • → German: passieren
      • Romanian: → pasa, → trece (semantic loan)
  • Norman: pâsser, pâssaïr
  • → Middle Dutch: passen
    • Dutch: passen
  • → Middle English: passen, pasen, pacen
    • English: pass, pace
    • Scots: pass
    • Yola: paaced (preterite)
  • → Middle High German: passen
    • German: passen

Further reading

  • “pass”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org