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What does dracaena mean in Latin?

I know draco means dragon and I have read in a lot of dictionaries that dracaena means female dragon or she-dragon, but in some dictionaries (mostly Latin ones) they don t even recognize it as a word. So it got me thinking, does it just come from a Latin word or is it a real Latin word.

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  • Siebrig
    6 years ago

    I don't think it is a Latin word. The male word for dragon is draco so it would be logic for the female word to be draca (because of the female endings of words in Latin) but it is also possible that dracaena just is a weird female form af the word draco.

    (sorry for my bad English)

  • tentofield
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    "Dracaena" is the Romanised form of the ancient Greek "δράκαινα -drakaina" meaning "female dragon". The latin form of the word is used for a genus of plants.

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