draco

See also: Draco and dračo

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/
Rhymes: -ako
Hyphenation: drà‧co

Noun

draco m (plural drachi)

(literary, obsolete) Alternative form of drago

Derived terms

indracare

Anagrams

cadrò, cardo, cardò, corda, croda

Latin

Alternative forms

draccō

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.koː/, [ˈd̪räkoː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/, [ˈd̪räːko]

Noun

dracō 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, in Latin also called Anguis or Serpens.[1]
(Ecclesiastical) The Devil.

Usage notes

Draco 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

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dracō	dracōnēs
Genitive	dracōnis	dracōnum
Dative	dracōnī	dracōnibus
Accusative	dracōnem	dracōnēs
Ablative	dracōne	dracōnibus
Vocative	dracō	dracōnēs

Derived terms

draconarius
draconigena
dracontarium
draconteus
dracontia
dracontium
dracunculus

Descendants

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: drac, dracu
- Megleno-Romanian: drac
- Romanian: drac
Italian: drago, dragone
Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: dragón
Neapolitan: draone
Old French: dragon, dragun
- Middle French: dracon
  - French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: dragon
- → Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragoune, dragun
  - English: dragon
    - → Japanese: ドラゴン (doragon)
    - → Marathi: ड्रॅगन (ḍrĕgan)
    - → Marshallese: tūrāikōn
    - → Niuean: tarākoni
    - → Swahili: dragoni
    - → Tamil: டிராகன் (ṭirākaṉ)
    - → Yoruba: dírágónì
  - Scots: draigon
- → Old Irish: dragán
  - Irish: dragan
  - Manx: dragan
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: dragu, dragón
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: drac, dragó
- Occitan: drac, dragon
  - → French: drac
Old Portuguese: dragon
- Galician: dragón
- Portuguese: drago, dragão
Old Spanish: dragon
- Spanish: drago, dragón
  - → Tagalog: dragon
  - → Waray-Waray: dragon
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: drâc, dragon
- Romansch: dragun
Sardinian: dragone
Sicilian: dragu
- → Maltese: dragun
Venetian: dragon
Vulgar Latin: *dragōnis
- → Proto-Albanian: *dragɔ̄n[3]
  - Albanian: dragua
→ 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)

References

“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
“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), [Georges, Karl Ernst; Calonghi, Ferruccio], 3 edition, 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

[1] Badellino, Oreste (1979) Dizionario italiano-latino (in Italian), [Georges, Karl Ernst; Calonghi, Ferruccio], 3 edition, Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, IT\\ICCU\\IEI\\0195942.

[2] 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).

[3] Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 222