Draco

See also: draco

Translingual

Draco volans

Etymology

From Latin dracō (“dragon”).

Proper noun

Draco m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Agamidae – gliding lizards from Southeast Asia.

Hypernyms

• (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

Hyponyms

• (genus): Draco volans - type species

References

• Draco (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Draco on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Draco on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Draco and nearby constellations

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Dracō, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn). Doublet of dracone, dragon, and dragoon.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Draco

2. (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.
3. The name of 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.

4. (Greek mythology) One of Actaeon's hounds.
5. 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.

Derived terms

• Draco in Leather Pants
• Draconis

Related terms

• draconian
• draconic
• dracontine
• Dracunculus

Translations

constellation

• Arabic: تِنِّين m (tinnīn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 天龍座 / 天龙座 (tin¹ lung⁴ zo⁶)

  Mandarin: 天龍座 / 天龙座 (zh) (Tiānlóngzuò)

• 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) (りゅうざ, Ryūza)
• Kazakh: Айдаһар (Aidahar)
• Latin: Draco m
• Malay: Naga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Dragen (no)

  Nynorsk: Draken (nn)

• Ottoman Turkish: تنین (tinnin)
• Persian: اژدها (fa) (eždahâ), هشتبهر (haštbahr)
• Polish: Smok (pl) m
• Portuguese: Dragão (pt) m
• Russian: Драко́н (ru) m (Drakón)
• Spanish: Draco
• Turkish: Ejderha
• Vietnamese: Thiên Long
• Volapük: Sidrak

Athenian lawgiver

• 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

• Dutch: Draco m

See also

• Eltanin
• Dracula

Anagrams

• C-Road, Acord, cardo, Coard

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δράκων (Drákōn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.koː/, [ˈd̪räkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/, [ˈd̪räːko]

Proper noun

Dracō m sg (genitive Dracōnis); third declension

1. The name of an Athenian lawgiver, known for the severity of his laws.
2. One of Actaeon's hounds.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Dracō
genitive	Dracōnis
dative	Dracōnī
accusative	Dracōnem
ablative	Dracōne
vocative	Dracō

Descendants

• Catalan: Dracó
• English: Draco
• French: Dracon
• Italian: Dracone
• Portuguese: Dracão, Draco, Drácon, Dracon
• Spanish: Dracón

References

• “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.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Draco m

1. Alternative form of Dragão

Spanish

Proper noun

Draco ?

1. (astronomy) Draco (constellation)