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Draco

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Draco is the Latin word for serpent or dragon.

Draco or Drako may also refer to:

People

  • Draco (lawgiver) (from Greek: Δράκων; 7th century BC), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, Greece, from whom the term draconian is derived
  • Draco (physician) (from Greek: Δράκων), the name of several physicians in the family of Hippocrates
  • Draco Rosa (born 1970), a Puerto Rican songwriter and former member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo
  • Dean Drako, American businessman

Arts, entertainment, and media

Games

  • Draco, a character in the fictional opera The Dream Oath: Maria and Draco in Final Fantasy VI
  • Draco, a dragon from the card game Magic: The Gathering
  • Draco Centauros, a dragon-like humanoid from the Puyo Puyo video game series

Literature, film, and television

  • Draco (Caminhos do Coração), a character from the 2008 Brazilian telenovela Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração
  • Draco, the name of the last dragon in the film Dragonheart.
  • Draco, a character from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess
  • Antares Draco, an Imperial Knight from Star Wars: Legacy
  • Jaq Draco, an Inquisitor who is the protagonist of Ian Watson's Inquisition War Trilogy
  • Marc Ange Draco, head of European crime syndicate and James Bond's father-in-law in Ian Fleming's novels
  • Draco Malfoy, a character in the Harry Potter series of books and movies
  • Drako, a character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise

Music

Brand or business

  • Draco, a guitar built by B.C. Rich guitars
  • Draco, a civilian version of the Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965

History

  • Dacian Draco, a Dacian military standard composed of a wolf head and snake tail
  • Draco (military standard), a Roman cavalry military standard in the shape of a dragon, adopted after the Dacian Wars

Science and technology

  • DRACO, a group of experimental antiviral drugs
  • DraCo, a partly Amiga compatible computer built by MacroSystem AG
  • Draco (constellation), a constellation in the northern part of the sky
  • Draco (dwarf galaxy), a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way
  • Draco (genus), a genus of gliding lizards
  • Draco (programming language), a shareware programming language for CP/M and the Amiga
  • Draco (rocket engine), an orbital maneuvering thruster being built for the SpaceX Dragon and upper stage of the Falcon 9 spacecraft
  • SuperDraco, a liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. Used for the launch escape system of the SpaceX Dragon 2
  • Draco Supercluster (SCL 114), a galaxy supercluster in the constellation Draco
  • Draco GNU/Linux, a Linux distribution
  • Draco, name given by the U.S. cable channel The Weather Channel to the December 2012 North American blizzard
  • Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO), a US DOD program, using Nuclear thermal propulsion

Other uses

  • Draconian constitution, or Draco's code, a 7th-century BC written law code
  • Draco Peak, a summit in Alberta, Canada
  • Draco Racing, a motorsports team in Italy
  • Draco, a prototype of a SPAA version of the Centauro 8x8 fighting vehicle of the Italian Army

See also

  • All pages with titles containing dracos
  • All pages with titles containing draco
  • All pages with titles containing drakos
  • All pages with titles containing drako
  • Draconian (disambiguation)
  • Dracaena (disambiguation)
  • Drago (disambiguation)
  • Drakon (disambiguation)
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