Where does “faunisticamente” come from?
faunisticamente (Italian) comes from Italian faunistico, from Spanish fauna, from Latin Fauna, from Latin Faunus, from New Latin fauna, from English avifauna, from Latin avis, from Proto-Italic awis — bird.
faunisticamente (Italian): faunally
Ancestry of “faunisticamente”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | faunistico | faunal |
| 2 | Spanish | fauna | fauna |
| 3 | Latin | Fauna | Roman goddess |
| 4 | Latin | Faunus | Faunus |
| 5 | New Latin | fauna | animals |
| 6 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 7 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | awis | bird |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂éwis | bird |