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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/03/20 22:22 UTC 版)
Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Gaulish. Draucus and Drauca are also attested as personal names.
Nikolaev takes it from Proto-Italic *drawikos (formed similarly to modicus and bellicus), from Proto-Indo-European *drowóm (“strength”) (compare Ancient Greek δροόν (droón)), from *drew- (“strong, firm”), with syncope as seen in Latin auceps. But Proto-Indo-European *dr is thought to have become tr in Latin (compare amtruō, citrus, lutra, uter, and vitrum). A similar derivation may still be possible through Gaulish.
draucus m (genitive draucī); second declension
Attested in ancient literature only in the poems of Martial, where the draucus is often presented as an object of male homosexual desire. For this reason, it was long interpreted by postclassical scholars as having the sense "sodomite", and is defined as such in many dictionaries. Housman 1930 argues that this was not its denotation in Classical Latin, citing Martial 7.67 and 14.48 as poems where this definition would not make sense, but a definition like "athlete" would. Nikolaev considers it to have had a sense similar to "stud, hunk", hence its absence from more elevated writing.
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | draucus | draucī |
| genitive | draucī | draucōrum |
| dative | draucō | draucīs |
| accusative | draucum | draucōs |
| ablative | draucō | draucīs |
| vocative | drauce | draucī |
| ・draucus | |
| ・faunis | |
| ・indanidine | |
| ・Houden | |
| ・Hist | |
| ・triangulating | |
| ・managerialist | |
| ・Negotin | |
| ・and gate | |
| ・Tattam |