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Dracula

name
/ˈdɹækjʊlə/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from dracō
  2. borrowed from drac

Definitions

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

  2. A former prince of Wallachia.

  3. Any vampire.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Dracula. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA