drago

drago

1. first-person singular present indicative of dragar

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• draco (obsolete, literary)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: drà‧go

From earlier draco, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Compare dragone, from the Latin accusative form.

drago m (plural draghi)

1. dragon (legendary creature)

   Synonym: dragone

   • 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory]‎, lines 130–132; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Poi parve a me che la terra s’aprisse
     tr’ambo le ruote, e vidi uscirne un drago
     che per lo carro sù la coda fisse

     Then it seemed to me the earth split open under the two wheels, and I saw a dragon come out of there, who stuck his tail in the carriage

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto quintodecimo [Fifteenth canto]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 62:

     Vide Leoni e Draghi pien di tosco,
     Et altre fere a traversarsi il calle

     He saw lions, and dragons packed with venom, and other beasts roaming on the path

2. (figurative, informal) expert, whizz
3. (figurative, informal, uncommon) a violent or impetuous person
4. (heraldry) dragon
   • 16^th century, Vincenzo Borghini, Dell'arme delle famiglie fiorentine‎, Florence: Pietro Gaet. Viviani, published 1755, page 44, collected in Discorsi di monsignore D. Vincenzio Borghini - parte seconda:

     E' Guelfi soli di Fiorenza usaron per generale insegna la rossa sopra un drago verde

     And the Guelphs of Florence alone used a red one above a green dragon as their coat of arms

5. (uncommon) kite (flying toy)

   Synonym: aquilone

6. (zoology) any lizard of the Draco taxonomic genus

• dragone

• drago in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

drago

1. first-person singular present indicative of dragare

• Grado, droga, godrà, grado

From Latin dracō via the nominative form. Now replaced by dragão, from the Latin accusative dracōnem.

drago m (plural dragos)

1. (obsolete) dragon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

drago

1. first-person singular present indicative of dragar

Borrowed from Slavic; compare Serbo-Croatian drag, Romanian drag, Bulgarian драг (drag).

drago (plural dragi)

1. dear
2. darling
3. beloved

drago m

1. affection
2. enjoyment

   Drágo mánge te gilabav ánde lávuta.

   I enjoy playing the fiddle.

3. fun
4. pleasure

   Che drágo!

   What pleasure!

5. preference

• IPA^(key): /drâːɡo/
• Hyphenation: dra‧go

drȃgo (Cyrillic spelling дра̑го)

1. to be glad, pleased, delighted (in copulative constructs)

   drago mi je ― I am glad

   bilo joj je jako drago ― she was very pleased

   što god ti drago ― whatever/anything you like

   kako ti drago ― as you like it

drago

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of drag

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɾaɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Syllabification: dra‧go

Inherited from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of dragón, from the Latin accusative dracōnem.

drago m (plural dragos)

1. the dragon tree

drago

1. first-person singular present indicative of dragar

• “drago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• droga, grado, gorda