Δράκων

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Ancient Greek

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Draco

Etymology

See δράκων (drákōn, “dragon, sharp sighted”)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /drá.kɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.kon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈðra.kon/

Proper noun

Δρᾰ́κων • (Drákōn) m (genitive Δρᾰ́κοντος); third declension

Draco

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Δρᾰ́κων; τοῦ Δρᾰ́κοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Δρᾰ́κων ho Drákōn
Genitive	τοῦ Δρᾰ́κοντος toû Drákontos
Dative	τῷ Δρᾰ́κοντῐ tôi Drákonti
Accusative	τὸν Δρᾰ́κοντᾰ tòn Drákonta
Vocative	Δρᾰ́κον Drákon
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

δρᾰ́κων (drákōn)

Descendants

→ Belarusian: Дракон (Drakón)
→ Breton: Drakon
→ Bulgarian: Дракон (Drakon)
→ Catalan: Dragó
→ Czech: Drak
→ Dutch: Draco
→ English: Draco, Drake
→ Finnish: Drakon
→ French: Dracon
→ German: Drakon
Greek: Δράκων (Drákon), Δράκοντας (Drákontas)
→ Hebrew: דרקון (Deraqon)
→ Italian: Dracone
→ Latin: Draco, Dracon
→ Luxembourgish: Drakon
→ Norwegian: Drakon
→ Polish: Drakon
→ Portuguese: Drácon
→ Romanian: Dracul
→ Russian: Дракон (Drakon)
→ Spanish: Dracón
→ Swedish: Drakon
→ Welsh: Draco

References

Δράκων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,009

Greek

Proper noun

Δράκων • (Drákon) m

(astronomy) Draco (a constellation)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Δράκων (Drákon)
genitive	Δράκοντος (Drákontos)
accusative	Δράκοντα (Drákonta)
vocative	Δράκων (Drákon)

Further reading

Δράκων (αστερισμός) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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