Where does “aviatress” come from?

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

aviatress (English): A female pilot of an aircraft

Definitions

  1. A female pilot of an aircraft

Ancestry of “aviatress”, step by step

aviatress traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English aviator

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

via English ess

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishessThe name of the Latin-script letter S; Something...
2Germanessfirst-person singular present of essen; singular...
3Proto-Germanicatiska-grainfield
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂edos-sort of cereal, grain
Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →