Where does “avoceta” come from?

avoceta (Spanish) comes from Italian avocetta, from Latin avis, from English avifauna, from Latin fauna — animals.

avoceta (Spanish): avocet any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra

Definitions

  1. avocet any of four species of wading birds in the genus Recurvirostra

Ancestry of “avoceta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianavocettaavocet, properly the pied avocet
2Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
3EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
4Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Latin faunaEvery word from Latin avisEvery word from English avifauna