fauna

• n. fauna; [動物]動物相
• n. （動物群）人の名前；（スウェーデン語）フォルナ

ラテン語のファウナ、ファウヌアの妻、姉妹、娘から。-aは女性を表す。スウェーデンの植物学者リンネが、植物群 "flora "に合わせて "fauna "を借用した。

fauna

fauna: [18] Fauna was a Roman goddess of the countryside, sister of Faunus (the Roman equivalent of Greek Pan) who was a nature and fertility god worshipped by shepherds, farmers, etc. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus applied her name in 1746 to his catalogue of the animals of Sweden, Fauna suecica ‘Swedish Fauna’, and it has been used since then as a collective term for the animal life of a region (one of the earliest records of its use in English is by the naturalist Gilbert White in 1771). (Faunus, source of English faun [14], may be related ultimately to Latin favēre ‘regard favourably’, source of English favour.)
=> faun

fauna (n.)

1771, "the total of the animal life of a certain region or time, from Late Latin Fauna, a rustic Roman fertility goddess who was wife, sister, or daughter (or some combination) of Faunus (see faun).

Popularized by Linnaeus, who adopted it as a companion word to flora and used it in the title of his 1746 catalogue of the animals of Sweden, "Fauna Suecica." First used in English Gilbert White (1720-1793) the parson-naturalist.

1. A vacant lot or a bombsite can，to the amateur naturalist，produce an extraordinary variety of flora and fauna .

アマチュア博物学者にとって、空き地や被爆した廃墟からは種類の多い植物群や動物群が発見される可能性がある。

2.Litter breakdown or fragmentation is due to the litter fauna .

落ち葉層の粉砕の原因は落ち葉層の動物相にある。

3.The fauna in the Joli Fou consists of bivalves and arenaceous forams.

喬里富群内の化石は主に二重殻類と砂殻有孔虫である。

4.All of this unfolds into a panorama of beautifully balanced fauna and flora.

を組み合わせて奇異な「動植物王国」にした。