δράκων

See also: Δράκων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally related to δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see”) with the literal meaning of “one who stares” or, alternatively, “sharp-sighted”.

With stem drakont- for drakon- (influenced by the present participle), as revealed by the feminine δράκαινα (drákaina).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /drá.kɔːn/ → /ˈðra.kon/ → /ˈðra.kon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /drá.kɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.kon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/

Noun

δρᾰ́κων • (drákōn) m (genitive δρᾰ́κοντος); third declension

1. dragon, serpent
2. a serpent-shaped bracelet
3. (astronomy) the constellation Draco

Declension

Third declension of ὁ δρᾰ́κων; τοῦ δρᾰ́κοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ δρᾰ́κων ho drákōn	τὼ δρᾰ́κοντε tṑ drákonte	οἱ δρᾰ́κοντες hoi drákontes
Genitive	τοῦ δρᾰ́κοντος toû drákontos	τοῖν δρᾰκόντοιν toîn drakóntoin	τῶν δρᾰκόντων tôn drakóntōn
Dative	τῷ δρᾰ́κοντῐ tôi drákonti	τοῖν δρᾰκόντοιν toîn drakóntoin	τοῖς δρᾰ́κουσῐ / δρᾰ́κουσῐν toîs drákousi(n)
Accusative	τὸν δρᾰ́κοντᾰ tòn drákonta	τὼ δρᾰ́κοντε tṑ drákonte	τοὺς δρᾰ́κοντᾰς toùs drákontas
Vocative	δρᾰ́κον drákon	δρᾰ́κοντε drákonte	δρᾰ́κοντες drákontes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• δρᾰ́καινᾰ (drákaina)
• δρᾰκόντῐνος (drakóntinos)
• δρᾰκόντῐον (drakóntion)
• δρᾰκόντῐος (drakóntios)
• δρᾰκοντῐ́ᾱ (drakontíā)
• δρᾰκοντῐ́ᾱς (drakontíās)

 

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: δράκος (drákos)
  • Greek: δράκος (drákos), δράκοντας (drákontas)
  • Mariupol Greek: дъра́кус (ðrákus)
• → Classical Syriac: ܕܪܩܘܢܐ
• → Armenian: դրակոն (drakon)
• → Belarusian: дракон (drakón)
• → Bulgarian: дракон (drakon)
• → Coptic: ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ (drakōn)
• → Georgian: დრაკონი (draḳoni)
• → Hebrew: דרקון (drakon)
• → Latin: dracō (see there for further descendants)
• → Macedonian: дракон (drakon)
• → Russian: дракон (drakon), драко́нъ (drakón)
  • → Bashkir: дракон (drakon)
• → Ukrainian: дракон (drakon)

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2024)
• “δράκων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1404 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • draco idem, page 249.
  • 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, →ISBN
• Riaño Rufilanchas, Daniel (1999) "ΔΡΑΚΩΝ" en Τῆς φιλίης τάδε δῶρα. Miscelánea léxica en Memoria de Conchita Serrano. Madrid: CSIC, 1999

Greek

Noun

δράκων • (drákon) m

1. Genitive plural form of δράκος (drákos).