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Derived from Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Draco m
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida – subclass; Lepidosauromorpha – infraclass; Lepidosauria – superorder; Squamata – order; Iguania – suborder; Acrodonta – infraorder; Agamidae – family; Agaminae – subfamily
- (genus): Draco volans – type species
Draco and nearby constellations
Borrowed from Latin Dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn). Doublet of Dracon, dracone, dragon, and dragoon.
Draco
- (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dragon. It features a line of stars (including Thuban) that winds between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- An Athenian lawgiver, known for the severity of his laws.
Alternative forms: Dracon, Drako, Drakon- 1985 December 8, William Safire, “ESSAY; Draco vs. Solon”, in The New York Times[1]:
The statesman Draco, faced with public complacency in the face of a crisis in crime, devised a simple method of maintaining order: kill all offenders.
- 1985 December 8, William Safire, “ESSAY; Draco vs. Solon”, in The New York Times[1]:
- (Greek mythology) One of Actaeon's hounds.
- A male given name from Ancient Greek or Latin.
Alternative form: Drako- 2014 August 15, Larry Rohter, “Life After ‘Vida’: One Man’s Time to Heal”, in The New York Times[2]:
Last November’s Latin Grammy Awards ceremony seemed to be the culmination of a heartwarming comeback for the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter-guitarist-producer Robi Draco Rosa. - 2022 November 10, Elisabeth Egan, “Tom Felton Auditioned for ‘Harry Potter’ Without Reading the Books”, in The New York Times[3]:
Midway through a video interview with Tom Felton about his best-selling memoir, “Beyond the Wand,” the actor who played Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies removes the blue-gray baseball cap he’d been wearing backward and begins to tousle his hair.
- 2014 August 15, Larry Rohter, “Life After ‘Vida’: One Man’s Time to Heal”, in The New York Times[2]:
constellation
- Arabic: تِنِّين m (tinnīn)
- Bulgarian: Дракон m (Drakon)
- Chinese:
Cantonese: 天龍座 / 天龙座 (tin1 lung4 zo6)
Mandarin: 天龍座 / 天龙座 (zh) (Tiānlóngzuò) - Esperanto: Drako
- Finnish: Lohikäärme (fi)
- French: Dragon (fr) m
- Galician: Dragón (gl)
- German: Drache (de) m
- Greek:
Ancient Greek: Δράκων m (Drákōn) - Irish: an Dragan m
- Japanese: 竜座 (ja) (Ryūza), りゅう座 (ja) (Ryūza)
- Kazakh: Айдаһар (Aidahar)
- Latin: Draco m
- Malay: Naga
- Norwegian:
Bokmål: Dragen (no)
Nynorsk: Draken - Persian: اژدها (fa) (eždahâ), هشتبهر (haštbahr)
- Polish: Smok (pl) m
- Portuguese: Dragão (pt) m
- Russian: Драко́н (ru) m (Drakón)
- Spanish: Draco
- Thai: กลุ่มดาวมังกร
- Turkish: Ejderha
Ottoman Turkish: تنین (tinnin) - Vietnamese: Thiên Long
- Volapük: Sidrak
Athenian lawgiver
- Bulgarian: Дракон m (Drakon)
- Catalan: Dracó
- Dutch: Draco m
- Finnish: Drakon
- French: Dracon (fr)
- Hebrew: דרקון (he) m (Draqón)
- Polish: Drakon m
- Portuguese: Dracão m, Drácon m, Dracon m, Draco (pt) m
one of Acteon's hounds
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdra.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdraː.ko]
Dracō m sg (genitive Dracōnis); third declension
Third-declension noun, singular only.
Catalan: Dracó
English: Draco
French: Dracon
Italian: Dracone
Spanish: Dracón
“Draco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Draco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Draco m
- alternative form of Dragão
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