draco
Latin
noun
Definitions
- A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent.
- The standard of a Roman cohort, shaped like an Egyptian crocodile ('dragon') head.
- The astronomical constellation Draco, in Latin also called Anguis or Serpens
- (Ecclesiastical) The Devil.
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek δράκων (dragon, a dragon, a serpent of huge size, a python, serpent, giant seafish).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δράκων
Gloss
dragon, a dragon, a serpent of huge size, a python, serpent, giant seafish
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
竜
Emoji
🐲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Dracula English
- rakuuna Finnish
- draco, dracō, dracōnem Latin
- dracō Latin
- dracō, dracōnem Latin
- dracōnem Latin
- tragema Latin
- дракон Russian
- tragafuegos Spanish, Castilian
- tragaldabas Spanish, Castilian
- tragaleguas Spanish, Castilian
- tragalibros Spanish, Castilian
- tragamonedas Spanish, Castilian
- tragaperras Spanish, Castilian
- tragar Spanish, Castilian
- δράκαινα Ancient Greek
- δράκων Ancient Greek
- δρακόντινος Ancient Greek
- τράγημα Ancient Greek
- τρώγω Ancient Greek
- τρώκτης Ancient Greek
- ἔφαγον Ancient Greek
- *derḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *terh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- drage Norwegian Bokmål
- drake Norwegian Bokmål
- dragon Swedish
- dreki Old Norse
- طَرْخُون Arabic
- դրակոն Armenian
- drac Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- drăcie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- drăcos Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- δράκοντας Greek (modern)
- τρώω Greek (modern)
- 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- דרקון Hebrew (modern)
- ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ Coptic