Drohne

See also: dröhne

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/
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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

Declension of Drohne [feminine]

	singular			plural
	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