different between draco vs cepheus

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