different between beast vs draco

English

Alternative forms

• beest (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English beeste, beste, from Old French beste (French bête), from Latin b?stia (“animal, beast”); many cognates – see b?stia.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /bi?st/
• Rhymes: -i?st

Noun

beast (plural beasts)

1. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
2. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.

   • Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
3. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4. (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.

   That is a beast of a stadium.

   The subwoofer that comes with this set of speakers is a beast.

5. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
6. (prison slang, derogatory) A sex offender.
   • 1994, Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)

     Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts.' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors […]
7. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
   • 2000, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon, Berkley (2001), ?ISBN, page 905:

     […] Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."

   • 2006, Heather Burt, Adam's Peak, Dundurn Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 114:

     He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.

8. A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.

Derived terms

• beastly
• minibeast
• saddle beast
• beast of burden

Related terms

• bestial
• bestiary

Translations

See also

• belluine (suppletive adjective)

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

beast (third-person singular simple present beasts, present participle beasting, simple past and past participle beasted)

1. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

Adjective

beast (comparative more beast, superlative most beast)

1. (slang, chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful
   • 1999, "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram (on newsgroup jaring.pcbase)

     There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.

Anagrams

• Bates, Sebat, abets, baste, bates, beats, besat, betas, esbat, tabes

Middle English

Noun

beast

1. Alternative form of beeste

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

draco m (plural drachi)

1. (literary) Obsolete form of drago.

Derived terms

• indracare

Latin

Alternative forms

• dracco

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, dragon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dra.ko?/, [?d??äko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dra.ko/, [?d????k?]

Noun

drac? m (genitive drac?nis); 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, in Latin also called Anguis or Serpens
4. (Ecclesiastical) 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; draco being a "temple" snake, the sort of large, exotic snake associated with the guardianship of temples; and serpens being a common terrestrial snake. This rule is not universally credited, however.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: drac, dracu
  • Megleno-Romanian: drac
  • Romanian: drac
• Italian: drago, dragone
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: dragón
• Neapolitan: draone
• Old French: dragon, dragun
  • Middle French: dracon
    • French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: dragon
  • ? Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragun, dragoune
    • English: dragon
      • ? Bengali: ?????? (?ragôn)
      • ? Japanese: ???? (doragon)
      • ? Marathi: ?????? (?r?gan)
      • ? Marshallese: t?r?ik?n
      • ? Swahili: dragoni
      • ? Tamil: ??????? (?ir?ka?)
    • 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 Portuguese: dragon
  • Galician: dragón
  • Portuguese: drago, dragão
• Old Spanish: dragon
  • Spanish: drago, dragón
    • ? Tagalog: dragon
    • ? Waray-Waray: dragon
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: drâc, dragon
  • Romansch: dragun
• Sardinian: dragone
• Sicilian: dragu
  • ? Maltese: dragun
• Venetian: dragon
• Vulgar Latin: *drag?nis
  • ? Albanian: *drag??n
    • Albanian: dragua
• ? Albanian: *drak
  • Albanian: dreq
• ? Cornish: dragon
• ? Estonian: draakon
• ? West Germanic: *drak? (see there for further descendants)
• ? Latvian: drakons
• ? Lithuanian: drakonas
• ? Welsh: draig
• ? Yiddish: ????????? (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, 1883–1887)
• draco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• draco in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• 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