Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Roman)A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.

    Faun, Faunus

    фавнfavn

    ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr

  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Fauns are mythical creatures. There's no way you saw one in the garden.

    deFaune sind Sagengestalten. Es kann nicht sein, dass du einen im Garten gesehen hast.

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Translations

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Origin

From Middle English fawn, from Latin faunus.

From Middle English fawn, from Latin faunus.

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