fauna
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\ \ [18] Fauna was a Roman goddess of the countryside, sister of Faunus (the Roman equivalent of Greek Pan) who was a nature and fertility god worshipped by shepherds, farmers, etc. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus applied her name in 1746 to his catalogue of the animals of Sweden, Fauna suecica ‘Swedish Fauna’, and it has been used since then as a collective term for the animal life of a region (one of the earliest records of its use in English is by the naturalist Gilbert White in 1771). (Faunus, source of English faun [14], may be related ultimately to Latin favēre ‘regard favourably’, source of English favour.)
\ \ Cf.⇒ FAUN
Word origins - 2ed.
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Fauna — Fauna … Deutsch Wörterbuch
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fauna — sustantivo femenino 1. Conjunto de todas las especies animales de un país, región o periodo: fauna mediterránea, fauna terciaria. Han hecho un documental sobre la fauna ibérica. 2. Uso/registro: coloquial. Pragmática: peyorativo. Grupo de… … Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española
Fauna — Fau na, n. [NL.: cf. F. faune. See {Faun}.] (Zo[ o]l.) The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fauna — {{/stl 13}}{{stl 8}}rz. ż Ia, CMc. faunanie, blm {{/stl 8}}{{stl 7}} ogół zwierząt żyjących na określonym obszarze lub w pewnej epoce : {{/stl 7}}{{stl 10}}Fauna Polski, Azji. Fauna lądowa, morska, stepowa. Fauna czwartorzędu, epoki polodowcowej … Langenscheidt Polski wyjaśnień
Fàuna — ž 1. {{001f}}mit. rimska božica, sestra ili žena Fauna, nadimak joj je Bona Dea: Dobra Božica 2. {{001f}}(fauna) zool. ukupnost životinjskog svijeta jednoga lokaliteta, kraja itd. ili razdoblja u povijesti života na Zemlji [morska ∼] ✧… … Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika
fauna — / fauna/ s.f. [dal nome della dea Fauna, antichissima divinità italica]. (biol.) [complesso delle specie di animali che abitano ambienti e territori determinati: f. marina, lacustre, terrestre ] ▶◀ Ⓖ animali … Enciclopedia Italiana
fauna — 1771, collective name for animals of a certain region or time, from L.L. Fauna, a Roman fertility goddess, wife, sister, or daughter (or some combination thereof) of Faunus (see FAUN (Cf. faun)). Popularized by Linnaeus, who adopted it as a… … Etymology dictionary
fauna — s. f. Conjunto dos animais próprios de uma região (a fauna brasileira) ou de uma época geológica (a fauna antediluviana) … Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
