Adjective: draconic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more draconic |
| Superlative | most draconic |
Sample Sentences
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There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms. [1908, E. Walter Maunder, chapter V, in The Astronomy of the Bible, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 196:]
Adjectives inflected like draconic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-der.
3. Proto-Hellenic *dérkomai
4. Ancient Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai)
5. Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn)der.
6. Latin dracō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
8. Proto-Italic *-ikos
9. Latin -icuslbor.
10. Old French -iquebor.
11. Middle English -ik
12. English -ic
13. English draconic
14. From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + English -ic.
Verbs referencing "draconic"
Dutch Adjectives
draconisch.