dragon
French
noun
Definitions
- a dragon, creature or person
- a dragoon
Etymology
Inherited from Old French dragon inherited from Latin dracōnem derived from Ancient Greek δράκων (dragon, a dragon, a serpent of huge size, a python, serpent, giant seafish).
Origin
Ancient Greek
δράκων
Gloss
dragon, a dragon, a serpent of huge size, a python, serpent, giant seafish
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
竜
Emoji
🐲
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dragoon English
- dragooner English
- *dragо̄nis Latin
- draco Latin
- draco, dracō, dracōnem Latin
- draconigena Latin
- dracunculus Latin
- dracō Latin
- dracō, dracōnem Latin
- dracōnem Latin
- drago Italian
- dragone Italian
- дракон Russian
- drago Spanish, Castilian
- δράκαινα Ancient Greek
- δράκων Ancient Greek
- δρακόντινος Ancient Greek
- δρᾰ́κων Ancient Greek
- *derḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- drage Norwegian Bokmål
- drake Norwegian Bokmål
- dragão Portuguese
- dragoun Middle English
- dragan Irish
- dreki Old Norse
- dragoun Czech
- طَرْخُون Arabic
- dragon Old French
- dragó Catalan, Valencian
- դրակոն Armenian
- drac Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- dragon Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- δράκοντας Greek (modern)
- drakons Latvian
- dragán Old Irish
- draic Old Irish
- dragon Norman
- dreq Albanian
- dracon Middle French
- *drakō gmw-pro
- דרקון Hebrew (modern)
- *drako Old Dutch
- dragon Old Portuguese
- *kʷennom Proto-Celtic
- drac Aromanian
- dracu Aromanian
- drac Occitan
- dragun Maltese
- dragón Asturian
- drâc Friulian
- drac Old Occitan
- draak Western Frisian
- ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ Coptic
- dragon Old Spanish
- dragu Sicilian
- *drakī Proto-Brythonic
- drac Megleno-Romanian