faun

See also: Faun

English

Alternative forms

faune (rare, archaic)
faunus (dated)
fawn (in Chaucer and Keats)

Etymology

From Middle English fawn, from Latin Faunus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔːn/
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Homophone: fawn
Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

faun (plural fauns)

(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
Synonym: satyr
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.

Translations

a mythical creature

Bulgarian: фавн m (favn)
Catalan: faune (ca) m
Dutch: faun (nl)
Finnish: fauni (fi)
French: faune (fr) m
German: Faun (de) m, Faunus m
Icelandic: fán (is) m
Irish: fánas m
Italian: semicapro m
Middle English: fawn
Norwegian: faun m
Old English: wuduwāsa
Polish: Faun (pl) m, Faunus m
Portuguese: fauno (pt) m
Russian: фавн (ru) m (favn)
Spanish: fauno m
Swedish: faunus c
Tagalog: pawno

See also

faun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

faun

Alternative form of fawn

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin faunus.

Noun

faun m (plural fauni)

Faunus

Declension

Declension of faun

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) faun	faunul	(niște) fauni	faunii
genitive/dative	(unui) faun	faunului	(unor) fauni	faunilor
vocative	faunule		faunilor

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