drake
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Etymology 1 edit
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 *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.
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drake (plural drakes)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.
Noun edit
drake (plural drakes)
- A mayfly used as fishing bait.
- (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.
- (historical) A small piece of artillery.
- 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:
- Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.
- 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 yͤ Nightcrowe make
mee musicke to my sorrowe.
- The moon’s my constant Mistresse
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
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- (mayfly): drake fly
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Afrikaans edit
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drake
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (“dragon”).
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drāke m
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Further reading edit
- “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Middle English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).
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drake (plural drakes)
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References edit
- “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.
Noun edit
drake (plural drakes or draken)
- drake (dragon)
- (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
- comet, shooting star
Descendants edit
- English: drake
References edit
- “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.
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drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)
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- “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
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drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)
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Swedish edit
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From Old Swedish draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.
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drake c
- a dragon
- a kite
- a male duck, drake
- a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax
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Nominative | drake | draken | drakar | drakarna |
Genitive | drakes | drakens | drakars | drakarnas |