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語源

From the name Vlad III Dracula (also known as Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”)), from the name of his father Vlad II Dracul, who was given the name Dracul by the Order of the Dragon. Dracul (literally “the Devil”) comes from the Romanian drac (“devil”), itself deriving from the Latin dracō (“dragon”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɹækjʊlə/, /ˈdɹækjələ/

固有名詞

Dracula

1. (fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.

   Synonym: Count Dracula

2. A former prince of Wallachia.

派生語

• blackula

名詞

Dracula (plural Draculas)

1. (nonstandard) Any vampire.
   • 2004 November 16, Brian Mitsoda, Chad Moore, TJ Perillo, Jason D. Anderson, Leonard Boyarsky, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, →OCLC, spoken by Dr. Ingvar Johansen (J. Grant Albrecht):

     But he would have had to have been over 250 years old! Like a Dracula or something.

参考

• Count Dracula
• Nosferatu

アナグラム

• Alucard