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Latin
Etymology
From Faunus + -ālia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Faunālia n pl (genitive Faunālium or Faunāliōrum); third declension
- Either of two festivals held in honor of the god Faunus, celebrated on the Ides of February and the Nones of December.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
References
- “Faunalia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Faunalia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Faunalia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers