Words that come from Latin “avis”

400 words across 61 languages descend from Latin avis — including aviation, fauna, auspicious, avian, ostrich, aviator, inauspicious, faunal.

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English (115)

Latin (36)

Italian (35)

Spanish (29)

French (23)

Portuguese (13)

Catalan (10)

Translingual (9)

Polish (9)

Romanian (9)

Galician (6)

Tagalog (6)

Esperanto (5)

Ido (5)

Ligurian (5)

Old French (5)

Vulgar Latin (5)

Dutch (4)

Middle English (4)

Norman (4)

Middle French (3)

Russian (3)

Abkhaz (3)

Finnish (3)

Romansch (3)

Friulian (2)

Icelandic (2)

Japanese (2)

Irish (2)

Old Occitan (2)

Hiligaynon (2)

Istriot (2)

Seychellois Creole (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Mauritian Creole (2)

Late Latin (2)

Slovincian (2)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Mirandese (1)

Sicilian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Venetian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Welsh (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Swedish (1)

Cebuano (1)

Asturian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Interlingua (1)

Ladino (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Occitan (1)

Kabuverdianu (1)

New Latin (1)

Words from Latin avis — 400 descendants | Etymology Explorer