drake

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See also: Drake and drakę

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dɹeɪk/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪk
Mallard drake

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.

Noun[edit]

drake (plural drakes)

  1. A male duck.
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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), from Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

Noun[edit]

drake (plural drakes)

  1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
  2. (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.
  3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
  4. 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.
  5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.
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Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

drake

  1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin dracō (dragon).

Noun[edit]

drāke m

  1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: draak
    • Afrikaans: draak
  • Limburgish: draagk, draogk

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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).

Noun[edit]

drake (plural drakes)

  1. drake (male duck)
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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)

  1. drake (dragon)
  2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
  3. comet, shooting star
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun[edit]

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse dreki and Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /²draːçə/, /²draːkə/

Noun[edit]

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite
  3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish draki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

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drake c

  1. a dragon
  2. a kite
  3. a male duck, drake
  4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension[edit]

Declension of drake 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative drake draken drakar drakarna
Genitive drakes drakens drakars drakarnas

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