faunus

From Latin faunus.

faunus (plural fauni)

1. Dated form of faun.

• “faunus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

See Faunus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfau̯.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːu̯.nus]

faunus m (genitive faunī); second declension

1. (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.

Second-declension noun.

• “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.