Where does “aviator” come from?
aviator (Romanian) comes from French aviateur, from French aviation, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.
aviator (Romanian): aviator
Ancestry of “aviator”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | aviateur | aviator |
| 2 | French | aviation | aviation |
| 3 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 4 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 5 | Latin | fauna | animals |
Words derived from “aviator”