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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɔn/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /fɑn/
• Homophone: fawn
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Noun

faun (plural fauns)

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

   Synonym: satyr

2. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.

Translations

a mythical creature

• Bulgarian: фавн m (favn)
• Catalan: faune (ca) m
• Czech: faun m
• Dutch: faun (nl)
• Esperanto: faŭno
• Finnish: fauni (fi)
• French: faune (fr) m
• German: Faun (de) m, Faunus m
• Greek: φαύνος (el) m (fávnos)
• Icelandic: fán (is) m
• Ido: fauno (io)
• Irish: fánas m
• Italian: semicapro m, fauno (it) m
• Middle English: fawn
• Norwegian: faun m
• Old English: wuduwāsa
• Polish: faun (pl) m
• Portuguese: fauno (pt) m
• Romanian: faun (ro) m
• Russian: фавн (ru) m (favn)
• Spanish: fauno (es) m
• Swedish: faunus c
• Tagalog: pawno

See also

• faun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

faun

1. Alternative form of fawn

Polish

faun

Etymology

From Faun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfawn/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awn
• Syllabification: faun
• Homophone: Faun

Noun

faun m pers (related adjective fauni)

1. (Roman mythology) faun (woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry)
2. satyr (lecherous man)

   Synonyms: cap, satyr

Declension

Declension of faun

	singular	plural
nominative	faun	faunowie/fauny (deprecative)
genitive	fauna	faunów
dative	faunowi	faunom
accusative	fauna	faunów
instrumental	faunem	faunami
locative	faunie	faunach
vocative	faunie	faunowie/fauny (deprecative)

Related terms

nouns

• Faun

 

Further reading

• faun in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• faun in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin faunus.

Noun

faun m (plural fauni)

1. faun

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	faun	faunul		fauni	faunii
genitive-dative	faun	faunului		fauni	faunilor
vocative	faunule			faunilor