Drako

A Hellenized spelling of Draco. Compare Drakon, from Ancient Greek Δρᾰ́κων (Drắkōn).

Drako

1. Alternative spelling of Draco (“Athenian lawgiver”).
   • 1847, George Grote, “Ionic Portion of Hellas.—Athens before Solon.”, in History of Greece, volume III (part II (Continuation of Historical Greece)), London: John Murray, , →OCLC, page 100:

     Drako was the first Thesmothet who was called upon to set down his Thesmoi in writing, and thus to invest them essentially with a character of more or less generality.

   • 1882, Jacob von Falke, translated by William Hand Browne, “Age of the Formation of States, to the Persian Wars”, in Greece and Rome: Their Life and Art, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 19:

     Wrong and oppression at last aroused the spirit of opposition in the growing multitude of the lower classes, who began to resist the severity of the written law, and of the code of Drako.

   • 1996, Joseph M[ichael] Bryant, “Toward Democracy in Athens”, in Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, section 3 (Archaic Greece), subsection I (Social Structure: The Emergence of Polis Society), page 68:

     Within a decade of the Kylon affair, the first Athenian lawcode was written down by Drako, no doubt largely in response to the growing political unrest.

2. A male given name, variant of Draco.
   • , Caroline Dale Snedeker, “Getting used to it”, in Theras: The Story of an Athenian Boy (The Kings Treasures of Literature), London; Toronto, Ont.: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons, Ltd., →OCLC, page 102:

     And that day one of the boys, Drako, gave Theras a spear—a great token of friendship.

   • 1965, “Peril in Mechanistria”, in The Dr Who Annual, Manchester: World Distributors, →OCLC, page 72, column 2:

     My name is Drako and I am the leader of this Haven.

   • 1993, Salâhi R[amadan] Sonyel, “The Phanariot (Fenerli)”, in Minorities and the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire (Publications of Turkish Historical Society; serial VII, number 129), Ankara: Turkish Historical Society Printing House, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Period of Decline (1566-1789)), “The Greek Community” section, page 84:

     Meanwhile, the new prince Karadja was succeeded in his employment as dragoman of the Porte by Michalaki Drako Lazzo, who had acted at Istanbul as the agent of the deposed Ipsilanti. He was the brother of Drako, who was beheaded, in the same employment, during the Turco-Russian war of 1768-74.

   • 2002 April, Marc Cerasini, “A Double Life”, in Star Wars: Anakin: Apprentice (Jedi Readers; A Step 4 Book), New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 38:

     Drako was a four-armed Codru-Ji and one of the fastest racers on the planet.

   • 2008 November, Patricia Grasso, chapter 1, in Enticing the Prince (Kazanov Royalty; 6), New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 11:

     We will also be welcoming three of my nephew-in-law’s cousins from Moscow—Princes Drako, Lykos, and Gunter Kazanov.

   • 2011 April, Tawny Taylor, chapter 1, in Darkest Fire, New York, N.Y.: Aphrodisia, →ISBN, page 1:

     In Drako Alexandre’s lifetime, lust had worn many masks—fair and sweet, dark and exotic, male and female—but whatever form it took, it always, without fail, seized its prey.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: Dra‧ko

Drako (accusative Drakon)

1. (astronomy) Draco (constellation)