Where does “Fauna” come from?

Fauna comes from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna, the Roman goddess of nature, derived from Latin Faunus, a Roman deity of fields and forests.

Fauna (English): Animals considered as a group; especially those...

Definitions

  1. Animals considered as a group; especially those...

Ancestry of “Fauna”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinfaunaanimals
2EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
3Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
4Proto-Italicawisbird
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂éwisbird
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₂éwis
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