fauno
Portuguese, noun/ˈfaw.nu/
fauno is spelled F-A-U-N-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,809th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fauno is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “faun (country deity among the Romans, represented with goat's feet and horns)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “figura da mitologia romana representada por um homem com corpo de bode”.
What does fauno mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefaun (country deity among the Romans, represented with goat's feet and horns)
- 2
masculinefaun (diurnal lepidopteran insect)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. figura da mitologia romana representada por um homem com corpo de bode
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fauno
- faunos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fauno?
- Brazil /ˈfaw.nu/
- Brazil [ˈfaʊ̯.nu]
- Portugal /ˈfaw.nu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fauno
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fauno in Portuguese?
fauno appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).