disc

English

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Alternative forms

• disk mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.

Etymology

Latin discus through French disque

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA: /dɪsk/, X-SAMPA: /dIsk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

disc (plural discs)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disc of metal.

2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
3. Something resembling a disc.

   Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.

4. A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

   Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

Usage notes

See usage notes at the disk entry.

Translations

a thin, flat, circular plate

• Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak)
• Bulgarian: диск (bg) (disk) m
• Dutch: schijf (nl) f
• Finnish: kiekko (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m
• German: Scheibe (de)
• Greek: δίσκος (diskos) m
• Hungarian: lemez (hu)

• Ido: disko
• Italian: disco (it) m
• Malay: cakera (ms)
• Maori: porotiti (mi)
• Portuguese: disco (pt)
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (disk) m
• Spanish: disco (es)
• Swedish: skiva (sv)
• Vietnamese: đĩa (vi)

intervertebral disc

• Czech: ploténka (cs) f
• Dutch: discus (nl) m
• Finnish: välilevy (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m

• German: Bandscheibe (de)
• Greek: δίσκος (el) (dískos) m
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (disk) m

something resembling a disk

• Armenian: սկավառակ (hy) (skavaṙak)
• Dutch: schijf (nl) f
• Finnish: kiekko (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m

• Greek: δίσκος (el) (dískos) m
• Romanian: disc (ro) n
• Russian: диск (disk) m

a vinyl phonograph / gramophone record

• Bulgarian: плоча (bg) (ploča) f
• Dutch: plaat (nl) f
• Finnish: levy (fi)
• French: disque (fr) m

• Greek: δίσκος (el) (dískos) m
• Romanian: disc (ro) n, placă de gramofon (ro) f
• Russian: диск (disk) m, пластинка (plastínka) f

Anagrams

• DCIs, DCIS

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus.

Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)

1. disc
2. (computing) disk
3. (sports) discus

Derived terms

• disc compacte
• disc d'arranc
• disc dur
• disc flexible

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *disk-, from Latin discus. Cognate with Old Saxon disk, Old Dutch disc (Dutch dis (“table”)), Old High German tisc (German Tisch (“table”)), Old Norse diskr (“plate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /diʃ/

Noun

disc m (nominative plural discas)

1. plate, bowl

Descendants

• English: dish

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Old Saxon

Noun

disc m

1. Alternative spelling of disk.

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Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French disque, Latin discus.

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

1. (technology) disk, disc
2. (music) disk
3. (sports) discus
4. (anatomy) disc

Etymology 2

From Greek δίσκος, partly through a Slavic intermediate disk(o)ŭ.

Noun

disc n (plural discuri)

1. disk (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money

See also

• placă