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
- Animals considered as a group; especially those...
Ancestry of “fauna”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | New Latin | fauna | animals |
| 2 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 3 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | awis | bird |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éwis | bird |
Words derived from “fauna”