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 on Wikipedia

 Draco (lawgiver) on Wikipedia

 Draco (constellation) on Wikipedia

 Draco Dwarf on Wikipedia

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:

     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:

     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:

     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

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Draco

Wikipedia ^es

Proper noun

Draco ?

1. (astronomy) Draco (constellation)