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English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
faunus (plural fauni)
- Dated form of faun.
References
Latin
Etymology
See Faunus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
faunus m (genitive faunī); second declension
- (Roman mythology) faun (horned sylvan deity)
1st century B.C., Lucretius, De rura natura:Haec loca capripedes satyros nymphasque tenere finitimi fingunt et faunos esse locuntur, quorum noctivago strepitu ludoque iocanti adfirmant volgo taciturna silentia rumpi.- These spots the neighboring countryside feigns to be the haunts of goat-footed satyrs and nymphs, and tells of fauns there, by whose nighttime din and playful pranks they declare the noiseless silence is broken.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “faunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “faunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- faunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.