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Where does “avēs” come from?
avēs (Latin) comes from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.
Ancestry of “avēs”, 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 “avēs”
Aves
Avetheropoda
Neoaves
Paraves
paravian
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