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pardal
pardal
See also: pardál
English
Alternative forms
- pardale [16th c.]
Noun
pardal (plural pardals)
- (obsolete) A pard; a panther or leopard.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- Wyld beasts in yron yokes he would compell; / The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore, / The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
Portuguese
Pardal (Passer domesticus)
Etymology
From pardo (“mottled, mulatto”) + -al
Pronunciation
Noun
pardal m (plural pardais, feminine pardoca, feminine plural pardocas, feminine pardaloca, feminine plural pardalocas)