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