draco

See also: Draco and dračo

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪkəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪkoʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkəʊ

Noun

draco (plural dracos)

1. (African-American Vernacular) A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
   • 2018, “Narcos”, in Quavious Marshall, Kirshnik Ball, Kiari Cephus (lyrics), Culture II‎^[1], performed by Migos, Motown:

     Chop trees with the draco

See also

• draco lizard

Anagrams

• cardo, C-Road, Coard, Acord

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: drà‧co

Noun

draco m (plural drachi)

1. (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of drago

Derived terms

• indracare

Anagrams

• cadrò, cardo, cardò, corda, croda

Latin

Alternative forms

• draccō (late, proscribed)

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

1. A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent.
2. The standard of a Roman cohort, shaped like an Egyptian crocodile ('dragon') head.
3. The astronomical constellation Draco.

   Synonyms: Anguis (poetic), Serpens

4. (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; dracō being a "temple" snake, the sort of large, exotic snake associated with the guardianship of temples; and serpēns being a common terrestrial snake. This rule is not universally credited, however.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dracō	dracōnēs
genitive	dracōnis	dracōnum
dative	dracōnī	dracōnibus
accusative	dracōnem	dracōnēs
ablative	dracōne	dracōnibus
vocative	dracō	dracōnēs

Derived terms

Derived terms

• draconarius
• draconigena
• dracontarium
• draconteus
• dracontia
• dracontium
• dracunculus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: drac, dracu, dãrac, darac
  • Megleno-Romanian: drac
  • Romanian: drac
• Italian: drago, dragone
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: dragón
• Neapolitan: draone
• → Old French: dragon, dragun (Anglo-Norman)
  • Middle French: dracon
    • French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: dragon
  • → Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragoune, dragun
    • English: dragon (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: draigon
  • → Old Irish: dragán
    • Irish: dragan
    • Manx: dragan
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: dragu, dragón
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: drac, dragó
  • Occitan: drac, dragon
    • → French: drac
• Old Galician-Portuguese: dragon
  • Galician: dragón
  • Portuguese: drago, dragão
• Old Spanish: dragon
  • Spanish: drago, dragón (see there for further descendants)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: drâc, dragon
  • Romansch: dragun
• Sardinian: dragone
• Sicilian: dragu
  • → Maltese: dragun
• Venetan: dragon
• Vulgar Latin: *dragōnis
  • → Proto-Albanian: *dragɔ̄n
    • Albanian: dragua
• → Albanian: *drak
  • Albanian: dreq
• → Cornish: dragon
• → Estonian: draakon
• → Proto-West Germanic: *drakō (see there for further descendants)
• → Latvian: drakons
• → Lithuanian: drakonas
• → Welsh: draig
• → Yiddish: דראַקאָן (drakon)

See also

• anguis
• coluber
• serpens
• vipera

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^[2]
• “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