dragón

See also: dragon, Dragon, and drag on

Galician

Alternative forms

• dragom, dragão (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /dɾaˈɡoŋ/ [d̪ɾɑˈɣ̞oŋ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /dɾaˈɡoŋ/ [d̪ɾɑˈɣ̞oŋ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /dɾaˈħoŋ/ [d̪ɾɑˈħoŋ]

• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: dra‧gón

Noun

dragón m (plural dragóns)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

   Synonyms: bicha, serpe

   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 26:

     Coydaua Jaason de adormẽtar o dragõ cõ palauras et cõ heruas.

     Jason meant to put the dragon to sleep with words and herbs

References

• “dragon” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “dragon” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “dragón” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

la estatua famosa del legendario dragón de Wawel en Cracovia, Polonia

una estatua de un dragón chino en el Palacio de Verano en Pekín

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dragon, from Latin dracōnem (accusative form), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”). Doublet of drago, from the Latin nominative dracō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɾaˈɡon/ [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞õn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: dra‧gón

Noun

dragón m (plural dragones, feminine dragona, feminine plural dragonas)

1. dragon (legendary serpentine creature)
2. dragoon (horse soldier)
3. (heraldry) dragon

Derived terms

• barco dragón
• boca de dragón
• dragón de Komodo
• fruta del dragón

 

Related terms

• drago

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: dragon
• → Waray-Waray: dragon

Further reading

• “dragón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• drogan