draco
English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdraco (plural dracos)
- (African-American Vernacular) A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
- 2018, “Narcos”, in Quavious Marshall, Kirshnik Ball, Kiari Cephus (lyrics), Culture II[1], performed by Migos, Motown:
- Chop trees with the draco
See also
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editItalian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdraco m (plural drachi)
Derived terms
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editLatin
editAlternative forms
edit- draccō (late, proscribed)
Etymology
editFrom Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdra.koː/, [ˈd̪räkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdra.ko/, [ˈd̪räːko]
Noun
editdracō m (genitive dracōnis); third declension
- A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent.
- The standard of a Roman cohort, shaped like an Egyptian crocodile ('dragon') head.
- The astronomical constellation Draco.[1]
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) The Devil.
Usage notes
editDraco usually connoted larger sorts of snakes in Classical usage, particularly those which seemed exotic to the Romans. One traditional rule gives the distinction among the various Latin synonyms as anguis being a water snake; dracō being a "temple" snake, the sort of large, exotic snake associated with the guardianship of temples; and serpēns being a common terrestrial snake. This rule is not universally credited, however.[2]
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | dracō | dracōnēs |
genitive | dracōnis | dracōnum |
dative | dracōnī | dracōnibus |
accusative | dracōnem | dracōnēs |
ablative | dracōne | dracōnibus |
vocative | dracō | dracōnēs |
Derived terms
editDerived terms
Descendants
edit- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: drago, dragone
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: dragón
- Neapolitan: draone
- → Old French: dragon, dragun (Anglo-Norman)
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: dragon
- Old Spanish: dragon
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: dragone
- Sicilian: dragu
- → Maltese: dragun
- Venetan: dragon
- Vulgar Latin: *dragōnis
- → Albanian: *drak
- Albanian: dreq
- → Cornish: dragon
- → Estonian: draakon
- → Proto-West Germanic: *drakō (see there for further descendants)
- → Latvian: drakons
- → Lithuanian: drakonas
- → Welsh: draig
- → Yiddish: דראַקאָן (drakon)
See also
editReferences
edit- “draco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “draco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- draco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- draco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “draco”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
- “draco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “draco”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “draco”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ Badellino, Oreste (1979) Dizionario italiano-latino (in Italian), 3 edition, [Georges, Karl Ernst; Calonghi, Ferruccio], Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, IT\ICCU\IEI\0195942.
- ^ James Fergusson, Tree and serpent Worship, or illustrations of mythology and art in India in the 1st and 4th cent. a. Chr, London: Allen and Co.,1868, page 13 (note).
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 222
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