Monday, August 23, 2010

What is the latin name for dragon?

"draco" is the latin name for dragon.

What is the latin name for dragon?
Draco est monstrum mythologicum quasi ingens serpens alatus.(in latin it means The dragon is a mythological creature that looks like a serpent )
Reply:The basic Latin word for dragon is draco.





Latin is a language with cases, which means that word order doesn't matter at all, and that each word in a sentence has a different suffix which tells you what part of speech it is in that context. Accordinly, there could be other forms of the word in a text. If you look in a dictionary, however, the word you will find is draco.





A dragon with a specific name would have the same name in Latin as it does in English.
Reply:Draco
Reply:Draco, borrowed from the ancient Greek drak么n, meaning "one who gazes hard."


The plural in Latin is dracones.





The Roman usually used epithets for these as well, e.g. Draco Hesperium (the Dragon of the West).





This page gives the Latin and Greek names for the dragons of myth : http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/dra...
Reply:It is draco
Reply:Draco Noblos: noble dragon





I'm not sure about the spelling of noblos, my Latin is a little rusty.


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