dragón

• dragom, dragão (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).

• Rhymes: -oŋ
• Hyphenation: dra‧gón

dragón m (plural dragóns)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

   Synonyms: bicha, serpe

   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 26:

     Coydaua Jaason de adormẽtar o dragõ cõ palauras et cõ heruas.

     Jason meant to put the dragon to sleep with words and herbs

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “dragon”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “dragon”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “dragón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Spanish dragon, from Latin dracōnem (accusative form), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”). Doublet of drago, from the Latin nominative dracō.

• IPA^(key): /dɾaˈɡon/ [d̪ɾaˈɣ̞õn]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: dra‧gón

dragón m (plural dragones, feminine dragona, feminine plural dragonas)

1. dragon (legendary serpentine creature)
2. dragoon (horse soldier)
3. (heraldry) dragon

• → Tagalog: dragon
• → Waray-Waray: dragon

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

• drogan