draconic
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin draco (“dragon”) + -ic.
Adjective
[edit]draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)
- Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
- 1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible[1], New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196:
- There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.
Adjective
[edit]draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)
- (rare, dated)[1][2] Very severe or strict; draconian.
- 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage[2], Canto 3, Stanza 64:
- […] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
- 1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity[3], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248:
- The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
- 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row, published 1973, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10:
- In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
Usage notes
[edit]- Superseded by draconian.
References
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[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German drakonisch.
Adjective
[edit]draconic m or n (feminine singular draconică, masculine plural draconici, feminine and neuter plural draconice)
Declension
[edit]Declension of draconic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | draconic | draconică | draconici | draconice | ||
definite | draconicul | draconica | draconicii | draconicele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | draconic | draconice | draconici | draconice | ||
definite | draconicului | draconicei | draconicilor | draconicelor |
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- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ic
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
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- Romanian terms borrowed from German
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