Where does “avion” come from?
avion (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French avion, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.
avion (Serbo-Croatian): airplane, aeroplane; aircraft
Definitions
- airplane, aeroplane; aircraft
Ancestry of “avion”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | avion | aeroplane |
| 2 | Latin | avis | a bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of... |
| 3 | English | avifauna | The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting... |
| 4 | Latin | fauna | animals |