different between draconic vs draconian

English

Etymology 1

From the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.

Adjective

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

1. Draconian.
   • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 3, Stanza 64, [1]

     […] they no land / Doomed to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.

   • 1932, Edvard Westermarck, Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Chapter VIII, p. 248, [2]

     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, The Gulag Archipelago (1973), translated by Thomas P. Whitney, Harper & Row, 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."

Etymology 2

From Latin draco (“dragon”) +? -ic.

Adjective

draconic (comparative more draconic, superlative most draconic)

1. Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
   • 1908, E. Walter Maunder, The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, Chapter V, p. 196, [3]

     There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.

See also

• draconic month
• dragonish

Anagrams

• Radoncic, accordin', cancroid

Romanian

Etymology

From German drakonisch

Adjective

draconic m or n (feminine singular draconic?, masculine plural draconici, feminine and neuter plural draconice)

1. draconian

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???k??.ni.?n/, /d?æk???.ni.?n/
• (US) enPR: dr?-k?'ni-?n, IPA^(key): /d???ko?.ni.?n/
• Rhymes: -??ni?n

Etymology 1

From the Athenian lawmaker Draco, from Latin Drac?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (Drák?n), known for making harsh laws. See ?????? (drák?n, “dragon”)

Adjective

draconian (comparative more draconian, superlative most draconian)

1. Very severe or strict.

   The Soviet regime was draconian.

   The mayor announced draconian budget cuts today.

Synonyms

• (very severe): cruel, hard, harsh, Orwellian, rigid, strict, stringent

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin drac? (“dragon”).

Adjective

draconian (comparative more draconian, superlative most draconian)

1. (obsolete, except in fiction) Of or resembling a dragon.

Synonyms

• (resembling a dragon): draconic, draconine, dragonish, dragonlike

Translations

Anagrams

• Conradian, Rinconada, noncardia