dracとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

drac (plural dracs)

1. Clipping of draco (“short-barreled Kalashnikov-pattern rifle”).

語源 2

From Occitan, from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “dragon”).

名詞

drac (plural dracs)

1. A shape-shifting water sprite, imp, or malevolent demon that haunts rivers.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 282:

     She related things equally wonderful, such as that the Dracs lived on people they had carried off, and turned themselves into human forms; and that one day, when the Drac gave her an eel-pasty to eat, she happened to put her fingers, that were greasy with the fat, to one of her eyes and one side of her face, and she immediately be came endowed with most clear and distinct vision under the water.