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English

Etymology

From Middle English sheld- (“parti-colored”) (akin to Middle Dutch shillede) + drake (“male duck”).

Noun

sheldrake (plural sheldrakes)

1. An Old World duck of the genus Tadorna.
2. A merganser.
3. A male shelduck.
4. The call sign for an artillery officer.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrek? (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drak? (“dragon”), from Latin drac? (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, giant seafish”), from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *der?-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and y? Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin drac? (“dragon”).

Noun

dr?ke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²dr??k?/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr???k?/

Noun

drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Anagrams

• kader