a male duck
Origin of drake
Middle English from West Germanic an unverified form drako, male, as in Old High German anutrehho, literally , duck-maledrake
- a small cannon of the 17th and 18th cent.
- Obs. a dragon
Origin of drake
ME, dragon from Old English draca from Classical Latin draco, dragonDrake
1540?-96; Eng. admiral & buccaneer: 1st Englishman to sail around the world
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drake
noun
A male duck.
Origin of drake
Middle Englishnoun
A mayfly used as fishing bait. Also called drake fly .
Origin of drake
Middle English dragon from Old English draca from West Germanic drako from Latin dracō ; see dragon .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English *draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-Germanic *anudrekô (“duck leader”), from Proto-Germanic *anudz ("duck, ennet"; see ennet) + Proto-Germanic *rekô (“ruler, king”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“chief, king”). Cognate with Middle Dutch andrake (“drake”), Middle Low German āntreke, āntdrāke, ("male duck, drake"; > Low German drake (“drake”)), Old High German anutrehho, antrache ("male duck, drake"; > German Enterich (“drake”)), Swabian Antrech (“drake”), German dialectal Drache (“drake”). More at ennet.
Origin
From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-Germanic *drakô (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drakon, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δρακεῖν (drakein), aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι (derkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *derk-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.
Proper noun
- A surname, notably of Francis Drake (1540-1596).
- A male given name, transferred from the surname.
Origin
Originally a nickname from Old English Draca (“snake,dragon”) or Middle English drake (“male duck”).
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Sentence Examples
- He took the same route as Drake along the west coast of America.
- The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.
- Dr Drake (Essays illustr.
- It took the better part of forty-five minutes to reach Drake Field.
- Drake, Unexplored Syria (1872); G.
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