drake

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

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-Germanic *anadrekô (“duck leader”), from Proto-Germanic *anadz ("duck, ennet"; see ennet) + Proto-Germanic *rekô (“ruler, king”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“chief, king”). Cognate with Middle Dutch andrake (“drake”), Middle Low German āntreke, āntdrāke, ("male duck, drake"; > Low German drake (“drake”)), Old High German anutrehho, antrache ("male duck, drake"; > German Enterich (“drake”)), Swabian Antrech (“drake”), German dialectal Drache (“drake”). More at ennet.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-Germanic *drakô (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δρακεῖν (drakeîn), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derk-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • J. A. Harrison

     Beowulf resolves to kill the drake.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
   • Clarendon

     Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

4. A fiery meteor.
5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

• (mayfly): drake fly

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

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

drāke m

1. dragon, wyrm

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

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• drage

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

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

1. a dragon
2. a kite

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).

• IPA^(key): /²drɑːkə/

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

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, from Proto-Germanic *drakô (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“serpent”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

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drake c

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