Dracula
See also: Drácula
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Medieval Latin or later, draco (“serpent, dragon”) -ula (“diminutive”)
Proper noun edit
Dracula f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Orchidaceae – certain orchids.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots – clades; Asparagales – order; Orchidaceae – family
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Dracula chimaera - type species; Dracula subg. Dracula, Dracula subg. Sodiroa, Dracula subg. Xenosia (subgenera)
- For a list of the numerous species, see Dracula on WikipediaWikipedia or Dracula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References edit
- Dracula (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Dracula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Dracula on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Dracula at Encyclopedia of Life
- Dracula at National Center for Biotechnology Information
English edit
Etymology edit
From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Dracula
- (fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.
- Synonym: Count Dracula
- A former prince of Wallachia.
Translations edit
fictional vampire
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former prince of Wallachia
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Noun edit
Dracula (plural Draculas)
- (nonstandard) Any vampire.
- 2004 November 16, Brian Mitsoda, Chad Moore, TJ Perillo, Jason D. Anderson, Leonard Boyarsky, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, →OCLC, spoken by Dr. Ingvar Johansen (J. Grant Albrecht):
- But he would have had to have been over 250 years old! Like a Dracula or something.