Where does “avocet” come from?
avocet (English) comes from French avocette, from Italian avocetta, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.
avocet (English): Any of four species of wading birds in the genus...
Definitions
- Any of four species of wading birds in the genus...
Ancestry of “avocet”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | avocette | avocet |
| 2 | Italian | avocetta | avocet, properly the pied avocet |
| 3 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 4 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 5 | Latin | fauna | animals |
Words derived from “avocet”