draco
See also: Draco
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdra.koː/, [ˈd̪räkoː]
- (modern Italianate 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 Latin) 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; draco being a "temple" snake, the sort of large, exotic snake associated with the guardianship of temples; and serpens 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
Derived terms
Descendants
- 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
- Venetian: dragon
- → Albanian: dragua, dreq
- → Cornish: dragon
- → Estonian: draakon
- → Proto-Germanic: *drakô (see there for further descendants)
- → Latvian: drakons
- → Lithuanian: drakonas
- → Welsh: draig
- → Yiddish: דראַקאָן (drakon)
See also
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[1]
- “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
- ^ Georges, F. Calonghi, O. Badellino, Dizionario latino-italiano, Rosenberg & Sellier, 3° edition, Turin, 1989
- ^ 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).