Where does “faunivore” come from?
faunivore (English) comes from English vore, from English Vaux, from English -ite, from French -ité, from Latin -īta, from Ancient Greek -ίτης, from Ancient Greek πολῑ́της, from Ancient Greek -της — Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems.
faunivore (English): Any animal that eats other animals
Definitions
- Any animal that eats other animals
Ancestry of “faunivore”, step by step
faunivore traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English vore
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | vore | The genre of creative work appreciated by... |
| 2 | English | Vaux | One of four communes in France |
| 3 | English | -ite | Used to form nouns denoting followers or... |
| 4 | French | -ité | Alternative form of -té, giving a quality or... |
| 5 | Latin | -īta | — |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ίτης | Suffix forming a masculine noun: one connected... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | πολῑ́της | citizen |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -της | Forms nouns representing a state of being; Added... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | -tāts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ts | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -teh₂ | Used to form nouns representing state of being |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tós | Creates verbal adjectives from verb stems |
via English Fauna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Fauna | The goddess of animals, nature, spring and fertility; she is also the consort of Faunus |
| 2 | Latin | Faunus | Faunus horned god of the forest, plains and fields |
| 3 | New Latin | fauna | animals |
| 4 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 5 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | awis | bird |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éwis | bird |