Etymology

sparid

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Today it means: Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae Full definition →

Latin sparus
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromsparus“bream”
  2. English todaysparid

From Latin sparus (“bream”) + -id.

Words from the same roots

Latinsparus all →

sparoid

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