discus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
discus (plural discuses)
- A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
- August 18 2004, Frank Fitzpatrick, “The amazing story of the first discus medal winner”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
- He [Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
- August 23 2008, John Branch, “Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way”, in The New York Times[1]:
- [Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses—he usually travels with about five of them, […]
- (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.
- 1929 July 4, Harry L. Borba, “The Superman of Track”, in The Vernon Daily Record, volume 4, number 209, Vernon, Texas, page 6:
- For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.
- 2008 September 8, “Weir lays down marker in Beijing”, in BBC[2]:
- And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest, […]
- (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
- 2008, Carol Roberts, “History of Discus”, in North American Discus Association[3], archived from the original on 8 December 2008:
- The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.
- (rare, dated) A chakram.
- 1893, K. M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, translation of original by Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, Adi Parva, Section XIX:
- And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
- 1899, Thomas William Rhys Davids, transl., Sàmañña-Phàla Sutta, translation of original by Digha Nikaya:
- If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh, […]
Usage notes[edit]
- Although an alternative Latinate plural disci is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.
Synonyms[edit]
- (round plate): quoit
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
round plate-like object for throwing
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athletics sport of throwing the discus
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). First attested in the eighteenth century.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
discus m (plural discussen, diminutive discusje n)
- discus
- Synonym: werpschijf
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: diskus
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪iskus]
Noun[edit]
discus m (genitive discī); second declension
- a discus, quoit
- a dish shaped like a discus
- disc of a sundial
- a plate
- (Medieval Latin) table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | discus | discī |
| Genitive | discī | discōrum |
| Dative | discō | discīs |
| Accusative | discum | discōs |
| Ablative | discō | discīs |
| Vocative | disce | discī |
Descendants[edit]
Descendants
- Old French: deis, dois
- Old Italian: desco
- Old Occitan:
- Occitan: des
- Old Spanish:
- → Albanian: dhisk
- → Albanian: dishkë
- Albanian: dishtë
- → Asturian: discu
- → Catalan: disc
- → Danish: diskos
- → Dutch: discus
- → French: disque
- → English: discus
- → Galician: disco
- → Proto-West Germanic: *disk (see there for further descendants)
- → Hebrew: דִּיסְקוּס (dískus)
- → Italian: disco
- → Portuguese: disco
- → Sicilian: discu
- → Spanish: disco
- → Basque: disko
- → Swedish: diskus
- → Middle Welsh: dyskyl
- Welsh: dysgl
References[edit]
- “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- discus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “discus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “discus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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