"draca" meaning in Old English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdrɑ.kɑ/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *drakō. Etymology templates: {{dercat|ang|la|grc|ine-pro}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*drakō}} Proto-West Germanic *drakō Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|head2=|sort=}} draca m, {{ang-noun|m}} draca m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-n-m|drac}}, {{ang-decl-noun|draca|dracan|dracan|dracan|dracan|dracena|dracan|dracum|num=|title=|type=weak}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], draca [nominative, singular], dracan [nominative, plural], dracan [accusative, singular], dracan [accusative, plural], dracan [genitive, singular], dracena [genitive, plural], dracan [dative, singular], dracum [dative, plural]
  1. dragon Tags: masculine Derived forms: fȳrdraca (english: firedragon), līġdraca (english: firedrake), nīþdraca (english: hostile dragon), sǣdraca (english: sea dragon)

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "drake",
            "id": "dragon"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: drake\nEnglish: drake",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: drake\nEnglish: drake"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *drakō.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-n-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "draca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "draca m",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "draca m",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drac"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-n-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draca",
        "2": "dracan",
        "3": "dracan",
        "4": "dracan",
        "5": "dracan",
        "6": "dracena",
        "7": "dracan",
        "8": "dracum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "weak"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ang",
          "name": "Mythological creatures",
          "orig": "ang:Mythological creatures",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "firedragon",
          "word": "fȳrdraca"
        },
        {
          "english": "firedrake",
          "word": "līġdraca"
        },
        {
          "english": "hostile dragon",
          "word": "nīþdraca"
        },
        {
          "english": "sea dragon",
          "word": "sǣdraca"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nÆfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dragon"
      ],
      "id": "en-draca-ang-noun-qcQ76UjF",
      "links": [
        [
          "dragon",
          "dragon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdrɑ.kɑ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "draca"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "firedragon",
      "word": "fȳrdraca"
    },
    {
      "english": "firedrake",
      "word": "līġdraca"
    },
    {
      "english": "hostile dragon",
      "word": "nīþdraca"
    },
    {
      "english": "sea dragon",
      "word": "sǣdraca"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
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            "id": "dragon"
          },
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          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: drake\nEnglish: drake"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "grc",
        "4": "ine-pro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*drakō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *drakō",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *drakō.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-decl-noun-n-m",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "draca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracena",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracan",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dracum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "nouns",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "draca m",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "draca m",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "drac"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun-n-m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "draca",
        "2": "dracan",
        "3": "dracan",
        "4": "dracan",
        "5": "dracan",
        "6": "dracena",
        "7": "dracan",
        "8": "dracum",
        "num": "",
        "title": "",
        "type": "weak"
      },
      "name": "ang-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English masculine n-stem nouns",
        "Old English masculine nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Old English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Old English terms derived from Latin",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "ang:Mythological creatures"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.",
          "text": "Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church\nÆfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dragon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dragon",
          "dragon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdrɑ.kɑ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "draca"
}

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