different between hydra vs draco

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

After the Hydra, from Greek mythology, which grew two new heads every time one of its heads was cut off. The first sense alludes to the budding method of asexual reproduction that the hydra practices, similar to growing new heads. The second sense refers to how the creature could not be killed by a swift, decisive solution (in contrast to a Gordian knot).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?'dr?, IPA^(key): /?ha?d??/

Noun

hydra (plural hydras or hydrae or hydræ)

1. Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles.
2. (fantasy) A dragon-like creature with many heads and the ability to regrow them when maimed.
3. A complex, multifarious problem or situation that cannot be solved easily and rapidly.
   • 2009, Kris Frieswick, Till Death Do Us Pay:

     Because the statute is so vaguely worded, award decisions are habitually based on case law, the growing mountain of which is a hydra of rulings that point in so many directions that almost any decision can be defended or overturned on appeal, depending on how smart your lawyer is and which precedent he selects to argue your case.

Translations

Anagrams

• Hardy, hardy

Czech

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (húdra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???dra]
• Rhymes: -?dra
• Hyphenation: hyd?ra

Noun

hydra f

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, singular only) Hydra, a mythological serpent with seven heads
2. something monstrous which is extremely difficult to fight with (often connected with organized crime)
3. Hydra, a genus of hydrozoan in family Hydridae

Declension

Alternative forms

• (serpent): Hydra

Synonyms

• (genus Hydra): nezmar

Hypernyms

• (genus Hydra): živo?ichové – regnum; žahavci – phylum; polypovci – class; nezma?i – order; nezmarovití – family

Hyponyms

• (genus Hydra): nezmar hv?zdnatý, nezmar obecný, nezmar opásaný, nezmar ostropouzdrý, nezmar podélník, nezmar štíhlý, nezmar zelený

Related terms

• See hydro-

Further reading

• hydra in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• hydra in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• drahý
• dráhy
• hadry
• hrady

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (húdra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?hy.dra/, [?h?d??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.dra/, [?i?d???]

Noun

hydra f (genitive hydrae); first declension (masculine hydrus)

1. A water-snake.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• Hydra
• hydrus

References

• hydra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hydra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• hydra in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[3]
• hydra in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hydra in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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