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faun 
[fawn] Pronunciation Key
[fawn] Pronunciation Key –noun Classical Mythology.
| one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat. |
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| faun
(fôn) Pronunciation Key
n. Roman Mythology Any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin Faunus, Faunus.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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faun
c.1374, from L. Faunus, a god of the countryside, worshipped especially by farmers and shepherds, equivalent of Gk. Pan. Formerly men with goat horns and tails, later with goat legs, which caused them to be assimilated to satyrs. The plural is fauni.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| faun | |
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| ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr |
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Faun
Faun\, n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See Favor.] (Rom. Myth.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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