Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 90432

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kagome <kagome at t...> wrote:

Kagome: 
> Let's try to put order in this mess =P
> 
> Draco: Latin word that means Dragon (YES it DOES mean Dragon. I 
studied 
> Latin for 5 years, so you can trust my words. Draco, draconis, 
draconi, 
> draconem, draco dracone etc. etc. For people who don't know, these 
are the 
> cases of the singular Latin declination of the word "Draco", 
respectively 
> Nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative, ablative). By 
the way: 
> its spelling is "Drahco" and not Dray-co. At least in latin.
> Draco: name of a star in a constellation (yes, it's true, even 
though I 
> don't remember the constellation)
> Draco indeed was a Roman general
> Drago: Italian word that means Dragon. I'm Italian so you *can* 
trust me.

Geoff:
I too studied Latin for 5 years and consider in retrospect it was an 
incredibly valuable thing to do - though it didn't seem so at the 
time.

Interestingly, we learned our cases in a different order. I learned 
them as Nom, Voc, Acc, Gen, Dat and Abl.

Other languages. My dictionary gives me "drakon" as the Greek origin. 
I believe the Swedish word is draken - their air force used to have 
SAAB Drakens as part of their equipment. Friends Malfoy and Norbert 
have certainly got the posts flying around!!