drake

• IPA^(key): /dɹeɪk/

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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-West Germanic *anadrekō (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 202:

     A drake belonging to a chemist, having drunk water out of a copper vessel which had contained phosphorous, continued its amorous activities until death.

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”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

drake (plural drakes)

1. (poetic) 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.

   Hyponym: (fantasy) proto-drake

   1. (fantasy, not universal) lesser draconic creature
2. beaked galley, or Viking warship

   Synonyms: dragon, dragonship

3. (historical) small piece of artillery
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:

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

4. a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
   • 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. (old) mayfly

   Synonym: drakefly

   Coordinate term: dragonfly

   1. a mayfly used as fishing bait

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

drake

1. plural of draak

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

drāke m

1. dragon, wyrm

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk
• West Flemish: droake

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraːk(ə)/

Inherited from Old English draca, aphetic form of *andraca, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō; compare ende (“duck”).

drake (plural drakes)

1. drake (male duck)

• English: drake
• Scots: drake

• “drāke, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English draca, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragoun.

drake (plural drakes or draken)

1. drake (dragon)
2. (figuratively) Satan; the Devil.
3. comet, shooting star

• English: drake

• “drāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• drage

From East Norse Danish drage, Swedish drake, Old East Norse *draki and Middle Low German drake (compare Old West Norse dreki), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

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

1. a dragon
2. a kite

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• drakje (Landsmål)
• (dialectal) draki (drakkji), draga

Compare Swedish drake, from Old East Norse *draki and Middle Low German drake (compare Old West Norse dreki), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

• IPA^(key): /²dra(ː)çə/, /²dra(ː)kə/

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.
• “drake” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

• draghæ

Inherited from Old East Norse *draki, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō. Known since ca 1300.

drake m

1. dragon
2. based on cognates: dragonship, longship

• Danish: drage

• https://gammeldanskordbog.dk/ordbog?query=drake

From Old Swedish draki, from Old East Norse *draki, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō. Compare Old Norse dreki (West Norse), Middle Low German drake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑːˌkɛ/

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drake c

2. a dragon (mythical creature)

   en eldsprutande drake

   a fire-breathing dragon

   (literally, “a fire-spraying [idiomatic] dragon”)

   Draken sprutade eld på riddaren

   The dragon spewed ["sprayed" – idiomatic] fire on the knight

   Spewed might capture the intensity of sprayed better than breathed.

   Riddaren dräpte draken

   The knight slew the dragon

   Drakar och Demoner

   Dragons and Demons

   A Swedish fantasy role-playing game (with similar cultural prominence to Dungeons & Dragons in some other countries).

4. a kite (toy)

   Barnen flög drake

   The children flew kites [or a kite]

   (literally, “The children flew kite”)

   Idiomatic for flying one or more kites as an activity. "To <verb> <singular noun>" is a recurring pattern for activities. Compare hopprep (“jump/skipping rope”), where English has a similar pattern "jump/skip rope," studsboll (“bouncy ball”), gungbräda (“seesaw”), val (“election”), and bada (“bathe; swim”).

   Barnen flög (med) drakar

   The children flew [(with)] kites

   Another way to phrase it, implying several kites.

   Nisse flög (med) en drake

   Nisse flew [(with)] a kite

   Could also be expressed as "Nisse flög drake," with a single kite implied.

6. (historical, nautical) a drake, a dragon ship (Viking longship (with a dragon head at the prow))

   Synonym: drakskepp

8. a dragon (keelboat)
9. a drake (male duck)

   Synonym: andrake

   • 1887 February 5, “Ankskötsel [Duck Husbandry]”, in Wadstena Läns Tidning, number 14, page 2:

     För att få deras ägg fröade, fodras 1 drake till 2 ankor, eller 2 till 5, och drakarne måste ombytas åtminstone hvartannat år.

     To ensure their eggs are fertilized, one drake is required for two ducks, or two for five, and the drakes must be replaced at least every other year.

10. a dragon (fierce woman)

• → French: drakkar (“dragonship”) (from plural drakar) (see there for further descendants)

• drake in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• drake in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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