different between avifauna vs ornis

English

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin avis (“bird”) + New Latin fauna (“animals”), from Latin Faunus (“god of herdsmen”)

Noun

avifauna (usually uncountable, plural avifaunas or avifaunae)

1. The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

Related terms

• avifaunal

Dutch

Etymology

From avi- +? fauna, perhaps borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.vi?f?u?.na?/
• Hyphenation: avi?fau?na
• Rhymes: -?u?na?

Noun

avifauna f (plural avifauna's)

1. avifauna, bird fauna; the birdlife of an area
2. A book about bird fauna.

Spanish

Noun

avifauna f (plural avifaunas)

1. avifauna, bird life

Further reading

• “avifauna” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From German Ornis, from Ancient Greek ????? (órnis, “bird”)This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

ornis (plural ornithes)

1. (formal) A bird.
2. The birds collectively of a region; avifauna.
   • 1867, The record of zoological literature (volume 3, page 60)

     Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.

Anagrams

• Irons, Orins, RINOs, Rison, Rosin, Sinor, inros, irons, noirs, noris, roins, rosin, siron

Latin

Noun

orn?s

1. dative plural of ornus
2. ablative plural of ornus