Etymology

faun

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Today it means: A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. Full definition →

Middle English fawn ← Latin faunus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfaunus
  2. Middle English · inherited fromfawn
  3. English todayfaun

From Middle English fawn, from Latin faunus.

Words from the same roots

Latinfaunus all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.