draco

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪkəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹeɪkoʊ/
• Rhymes: -eɪkəʊ

draco (plural dracos)

1. (African-American Vernacular) A short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle.
   • 2018, “Narcos”, in Quavious Marshall, Kirshnik Ball, Kiari Cephus (lyrics), Culture II‎, performed by Migos, Motown:

     Chop trees with the draco

• draco lizard

• IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: drà‧co

draco m (plural drachi)

1. (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of drago

• indracare

• cadrò, cardo, cardò, corda, croda

• draccō (late, proscribed)

From Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.koː/, [ˈd̪räkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ko/, [ˈd̪räːko]

dracō m (genitive dracōnis); third declension

1. A dragon; a kind of snake or serpent.
2. The standard of a Roman cohort, shaped like an Egyptian crocodile ('dragon') head.
3. The astronomical constellation Draco.[1]

   Synonyms: Anguis (poetic), Serpens

4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) The Devil.

Draco usually connoted larger sorts of snakes in Classical usage, particularly those which seemed exotic to the Romans. One traditional rule gives the distinction among the various Latin synonyms as anguis being a water snake; dracō being a "temple" snake, the sort of large, exotic snake associated with the guardianship of temples; and serpēns being a common terrestrial snake. This rule is not universally credited, however.[2]

Third-declension noun.

• anguis
• coluber
• serpens
• vipera

• “draco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “draco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• draco in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• draco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “draco”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “draco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “draco”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “draco”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin