Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðrákon/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðrákon/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðɾákon/

Noun

δράκων • ‎(drákōn) m ‎(genitive δράκοντος); third declension

1. dragon, serpent
2. A serpent shaped bracelet.

Inflection

Derived terms

• δράκαινα ‎(drákaina)

Descendants

• Catalan: drac
• Czech: drak
• Danish: drage
• Dutch: draak
• English: drake, dragon
• French: dragon
• German: Drache
• Greek: δράκων ‎(drákon), δράκος ‎(drákos), δράκοντας ‎(drákontas)
• Hebrew: דרקון ‎(drakon)
• Icelandic: dreki
• Italian: drago
• Japanese: ドラゴン ‎(doragon) (= European dragon)
• Latin: draco, dracon
• Luxembourgish: Draach
• Norwegian: drage
• Occitan: dragon
• Portuguese: dragão (plural dragões)
• Romanian: drac (plural draci)
• Russian: дракон ‎(drakon)
  • Bashkir: дракон ‎(drakon)
• Scots: draigon
• Spanish: dragón
• Swedish: drake

References

• δράκων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δράκων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δράκων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «δράκων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «δράκων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «δράκων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• δράκων in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1404”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Draco idem, page 1009.
  • dragon idem, page 250.
  • serpent idem, page 755.
  • snake idem, page 788.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press

1. ↑ Georg Autenrieth, Isaac Flagg. A Homeric dictionary, for schools and colleges, 1887.