Definitions for Faunus

Faunus Fau·nus

Spelling: [faw-nuh s]
IPA: /ˈfɔ nəs/

Faunus is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Faunus (afnsuu).

Definitions for Faunus

noun

  1. an ancient Italian woodland deity, later identified with Pan.

Examples for Faunus

The nymph was passionately in love with the shepherd Acis, son of Faunus and of the nymph Symœthis, and pursued him incessantly.

The tree was sacred to Faunus, but the men of Troy had cut it, and the stump only was left.

He was a great general like yourself, monseigneur; he has the horns of Juno and of Faunus.

Could the pipe of Horace's Faunus be sweeter than that flute?

Picus begot Faunus, the second king of Laurentum; and he too is, or was, a god with them.

The demi-god Faunus, who had an oracle at the Solfatara, had also an oracle on this hill.

Fauna was the wife of Faunus, and participated in his functions.

He, men say, was sprung of Faunus and the nymph Marica of Laurentum.

It is an exquisite cheese, made by Faunus from milk of the heifer Io.

The most important of those that remained was the prophetic ilex grove upon the Aventine hill, sacred to Faunus and Picus.

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