Where does “aviate” come from?

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

aviate (English): To operate an aircraft

Definitions

  1. To operate an aircraft

Ancestry of “aviate”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaviatorAn aircraft pilot. The use of the word may imply...
2Frenchaviateuraviator
3Frenchaviationaviation
4Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
5EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
6Latinfaunaanimals

Words derived from “aviate”

Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →
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