drake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɹeɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology 1
From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.
Noun
drake (plural drakes)
- A male duck.
Derived terms
- duck on drake
- ducks and drakes
- sheldrake
- wood drake
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Etymology 2
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.
Noun
drake (plural drakes)
- A mayfly used as fishing bait.
- (poetic) A dragon.
- 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria
- Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.
- 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria
- (historical) A small piece of artillery.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, OCLC 937919305:
- Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
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- A fiery meteor.
- c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
& the lowlie owle my morrowe.
The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make
mee musicke to my sorrowe.
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
- c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
Synonyms
- (mayfly): drake fly
Derived terms
- earthdrake
- eastern green drake
- firedrake
- icedrake
- nithedrake
- seadrake
- sea drake
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See also
- drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Kader, Radke, daker, darke, raked
Afrikaans
Noun
drake
- plural of draak
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Noun
drāke m
- dragon, wyrm
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: draak
- Afrikaans: draak
- Limburgish: draagk, draogk
Further reading
- “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdraːk(ə)/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).
Noun
drake (plural drakes)
- drake (male duck)
Descendants
- English: drake
- Scots: drake
References
- “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.
Noun
drake (plural drakes or draken)
- drake (dragon)
- (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
- comet, shooting star
Descendants
- English: drake
References
- “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- drage
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.
Noun
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)
- a dragon
- a kite
References
- “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- drakje (pre-1901)
- drakkji, dragje, draga (dialectal)
Etymology
From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²draːçə/, /²draːkə/
Noun
drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)
- a dragon
- a kite
- a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head
References
- “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/
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Noun
drake c
- a dragon
- a kite
- a male duck, drake
- a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax
Declension
Declension of drake | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | drake | draken | drakar | drakarna |
Genitive | drakes | drakens | drakars | drakarnas |
Anagrams
- kader