drake

• n. 雄のアヒル；カゲロウ（ドレイクフライに等しい）
• n.（ドレーク）人名；（ドイツ語、フィンランド語、ポルトガル語）ドレーク；（イギリス語）ドレーク

古英語の*andraca, king duck, male duck, *and, down duckが語源。

drake

drake: English has two words drake, but the older, ‘dragon’ [OE] (which comes via prehistoric West Germanic *drako from Latin dracō, source of English dragon), has now more or less disappeared from general use (it is still employed for a sort of fishing fly). Drake ‘male duck’ [13] probably goes back to (another) prehistoric West Germanic *drako, preserved also in the second element of German enterich ‘male duck’.
=> dragon

drake (n.1)

"male duck," c. 1300, unrecorded in Old English but may have existed then, from West Germanic *drako (cognates: Low German drake, second element of Old High German anutrehho, dialectal German Drache).

drake (n.2)

archaic for "dragon," from Old English draca "dragon, sea monster, huge serpent," from Proto-Germanic *drako (cognates: Middle Dutch and Old Frisian drake, Dutch draak, Old High German trahho, German drache), an early borrowing from Latin draco (see dragon).

1. Drake and his cohorts were not pleased with my appointment.

ドレイクの連中は私の任命に不満を持っている。

2.I brought in one drake and three ducks.

私はアヒルのオスとアヒルのメスを3羽手に入れた。

3.Plymouth Hoe is renowned as the site where Drake played bowls before tackling the Spanish Armada.

プリマスハイランドは、スペインの無敵艦隊を倒す前にドレイクが木のボール遊びをしていた跡地であることで知られている。

4. Drake is sure to open a hotel here in September."

ドレイクは9月にここにホテルを開くに違いない。"

5. " Isn't Mr. Drake going to open his hotel? 「

「ドレイクさんはホテルを開くつもりはありませんか。