Where does “aviateur” come from?

aviateur (Dutch) comes from French aviateur, from French aviation, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

aviateur (Dutch): aviator

Definitions

  1. aviator

Ancestry of “aviateur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchaviateuraviator
2Frenchaviationaviation
3Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
4EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
5Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →