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draconic en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /dɹəˈkɑnɪk/ (US)
- /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/ (UK)
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- /dɹæk-/ (US)
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- (US) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dérkomai
Ancient Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai)
Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn)der.
Latin dracō
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English draconic
From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + English -ic.
Meanings
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Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196:
Forms
Deriveds
draconically · draconic chart · draconic month
Synonyms
draconical · draconian · dragony · dragonesque · dragonlike · dragonish · draconine
draconic en · ADJ · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /dɹəˈkɑnɪk/ (US)
- /dɹəˈkɒnɪk/ (UK)
- (US)
- /dɹæk-/ (US)
- (US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
From Latin Dracō (stem Dracōn-) + -ic, after the Athenian lawmaker Draco, known for making harsh laws.
Meanings
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(dated, rare) Very severe or strict; draconian.
The sexual instinct can hardly be changed by prescriptions; I doubt whether all laws against homosexual intercourse, even the most draconic, have ever been able to extinguish the peculiar desire of anybody born with homosexual tendencies.
1932, Edvard Westermarck, chapter VIII, in Ethical Relativity, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, page 248:In the first months after the October Revolution Lenin was already demanding "the most decisive, draconic measures to tighten up discipline."
1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row, published 1973, Vol. 2, Part III, pp. 9-10:[…] they no land / Doom'd to bewail the blasphemy of laws / Making kings' rights divine, by some Draconic clause.
1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXIV, page 37:
Forms
Deriveds
draconically
Synonyms
draconical
wikipedia: Draco (lawgiver)