Where does “aviatrix” come from?

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

aviatrix (English): A female aviator

Definitions

  1. A female aviator

Ancestry of “aviatrix”, 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
Every word from Latin fauna
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