Where does “avião” come from?

avião (Portuguese) comes from French avion, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

avião (Portuguese): airplane; Obsolete spelling of haviam

Definitions

  1. airplane; Obsolete spelling of haviam

Ancestry of “avião”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchavionaeroplane
2Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
3EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
4Latinfaunaanimals

Words derived from “avião”

Every word from Latin fauna →Every word from Latin avis →Every word from English avifauna →
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