drago – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of drago

Noun: drago
Gender: m Hyphenation: drà‧go
Singular mdrago
Plural mdraghi

Sample Sentences

  • 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) [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], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
  • 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) [1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto quintodecimo [Fifteenth canto]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 62:]
  • 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 [eagle] above a green dragon as their coat of arms) [16ᵗʰ 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:]

Nouns inflected like drago

sbrego, sbergo, sbarco, sbocco, sbieco, sarago, scacco, scalco, scinco, diftongo, smacco, smergo, slargo, guidalesco, pacciugo, antiscialagogo, rinfresco, granturco, pappalecco, rinfianco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

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

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