Where does “aviation” come from?

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

aviation (French): aviation

Definitions

  1. aviation

Ancestry of “aviation”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
2EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
3Latinfaunaanimals

Words derived from “aviation”

Every word from Latin fauna →