Etymology of the English word megafauna
the English word
megafaunaderived from the English word
faunaderived from the New Latin word
fauna (fauna)
derived from the Late Latin word
Faunausing the English prefix
mega-derived from the Byzantine Greek word
megas, μέγας (big)
derived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*meg- (great)
Usage
Word found in Modern English
