Drohne
German
Etymology
Ca. 1600, from Middle Low German drōne (variant of commoner drāne), from Old Saxon drāna, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēnuz.
The Low German form replaced older Tren(e), Trän(e), from Middle High German tren(e), from Old High German treno, from the Germanic ablaut variant *drenô. This may have been reinforced by the desire to avoid homonymy with Träne (“tear”). The word was originally a masculine but became feminine in Early Modern German, probably under the influence of Biene (“bee”). Drones were at that time distinguished only by function; the fact that they were males was generally unknown. The aircraft sense is a semantic loan from cognate English drone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʁoːnə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Droh‧ne
Noun
Drohne f (genitive Drohne, plural Drohnen)
- drone (male bee)
- Coordinate terms: Bienenkönigin, Arbeiterin
- (dated) sponger, parasite
- (aviation) drone (unmanned aircraft)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Drohne | die | Drohnen |
genitive | einer | der | Drohne | der | Drohnen |
dative | einer | der | Drohne | den | Drohnen |
accusative | eine | die | Drohne | die | Drohnen |
Derived terms
- Abfangdrohne
- Angriffsdrohne
- Aufklärungsdrohne
- Drohnenangriff
- Flugdrohne
- Frachtdrohne
- Hubschrauberdrohne/Hubschrauber-Drohne
- Kameradrohne
- Kampfdrohne
- Krandrohne
- Lastendrohne
- Mikrodrohne
- Militärdrohne
- Paketdrohne
- Polizeidrohne
- Rettungsdrohne
- Spionagedrohne
- Suchdrohne
- Transportdrohne
- Überwachungsdrohne
Further reading
Drohne on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Drohne” in Duden online
- “Drohne” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache