Where does “avis” come from?

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

avis (Latin): a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...

Definitions

  1. a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...

Ancestry of “avis”, step by step

avis traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via English avifauna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
2Latinfaunaanimals

via Proto-Italic awis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italicawisbird
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂éwisbird

via New Latin metatarsus

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1New Latinmetatarsus—

Words derived from “avis”

Every word from Latin fauna →