CD

See also: Cd, cD, cd, .cd, and C.D.

Translingual[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Symbol[edit]

CD

The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

CD

corps diplomatique, diplomatic corps (collective body of foreign diplomats accredited to a particular country or body)

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˌsiːˈdiː/

Noun[edit]

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

Initialism of compact disc; a disc once commonly used to store data, and especially for the distribution of music and software.
I misplaced the Windows 98 install CD.
- 1980 April 13, Allan Kozinn, “The Future is Digital”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:
  Called Compact Discs (CD for short) and expected to enter the market by 1983, they play an hour per side and are virtually indestructible.
1. (metonymically, dated) An album; a collection of musical recordings (or, occasionally, other audio such as spoken word).
  Mariah Carey's new CD has some R'n'B influences.
(diplomacy, now rare) Initialism of corps diplomatique, the diplomatic corps of a particular country.
- 1955, Graham Greene, The Quiet American:
  Along the route to Tanyin flowed a fast stream of staff and C.D. cars.
- 1978, Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing, Vintage 2007, p. 8:
  Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.
(finance) Abbreviation of certificate of deposit.
(business) Initialism of creative director, head of the creative department (for example of an advertising agency).
(business) Initialism of corporate design, specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
(networking) Initialism of collision detection.
(nautical) Initialism of chart datum.
Initialism of cross-dresser.
(chemistry, physics) Initialism of circular dichroism.
(immunology, biochemistry) Initialism of cluster of differentiation.

Derived terms[edit]

(corps diplomatique): CD plate
(compact disk): CD burner, CD player, CD-R, CD-ROM, CD-RW
(cluster of differentiation): CD3, CD4, CD7, CD8, CD10, CD11, CD13, CD15, CD18, CD19, CD20, CD21, CD22, CD23, CD30, CD33, CD35, CD38, CD43, CD45, CD46, CD52, CD54, CD56, CD79a, CD103, CD117, CD135, CD138, CD150, CD319

Translations[edit]

abbreviation of compact disc — See also translations at compact disc

Arabic: سِي دِي‎ m (sī dī)
Armenian: CD
Bengali: সিডি (śiḍi)
Burmese: စီဒီ (cidi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: CD (si¹ di¹)

Mandarin: CD (zh) (xīdì), 光盤 (zh), 光盘 (zh) (guāngpán), 光碟 (zh) (guāngdié)
Classical Nahuatl: yahualtōntli
Dutch: cd (nl) m
Esperanto: KD
Finnish: CD (fi)
French: CD (fr) m
Georgian: CD
German: CD (de) f
Greek: CD (el) n (CD)
Hindi: सीडी (sīḍī)

Japanese: シーディー (sīdī), ＣＤ (sīdī)
Khmer: ស៊ីឌី (siidii)
Korean: 시디 (ko) (sidi)
Lao: ຊີດີ (sī dī)
Macedonian: це-де n (ce-de)
Malay: CD
Mòcheno: CD f
Persian: سی‌دی‎ (si-di)
Portuguese: CD (pt) m
Russian: CD m, си-ди́ m (si-dí)
Spanish: CD (es) m
Swedish: CD (sv) c
Thai: ซีดี (th) (sii-dii)
Urdu: سی ڈی‎ (sī-ḍī)
Vietnamese: CD

Verb[edit]

CD (third-person singular simple present CDs, present participle CDing, simple past and past participle CDed)

To cross-dress.
- 1993 January 5, "Tierney Dhewitrei" (username), about me, is it familiar?, in alt.transgendered, Usenet:
  By now I did not feel right without a bra and panties whenever I CD'ed.

Anagrams[edit]

D&C, D.C., DC, Dc, d/c, dc

Catalan[edit]

Noun[edit]

CD m (plural CDs)

CD, compact disc

Synonyms[edit]

disc compacte

Chinese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xīdì, sēidì

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄉㄧˋ, ㄙㄟㄉㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): si¹ di¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: CD
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄉㄧˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shidih
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sidì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: sēidì
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄟㄉㄧˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: seidih
  - Tongyong Pinyin: seidì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /seɪ̯⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: si¹ di¹
  - Yale: sī dī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: si¹ di¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: xi¹ di¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː⁵⁵ tiː⁵⁵/

Noun[edit]

CD

CD, compact disk (Classifier: 張／张 m)
- 給你一張過去的CD / 聽聽那時我們的愛情 [MSC, trad.]
  给你一张过去的CD / 听听那时我们的爱情 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 2011, 柯肇雷 (Ke Zhaolei) (lyrics and music), 《因为爱情》
  gěi nǐ yī zhāng guòqù de CD / tīng tīng nàshí wǒmen de àiqíng [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)

Derived terms[edit]

CD播放器 (xìdì bōfàngqì)
CD播放機／CD播放机 (xìdì bōfàngjī)

CD機／CD机 (xìdìjī)

Cimbrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English CD.

Noun[edit]

CD f (plural CD)

(Luserna) CD (compact disc)

References[edit]

“CD” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Finnish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈseːˌdeː/, [ˈs̠e̞ːˌde̞ː]

Noun[edit]

CD

CD, compact disc

Declension[edit]

Declension of CD (type maa)

	singular	plural
nominative	CD	CD:t
genitive	CD:n	CD:iden CD:itten
partitive	CD:tä	CD:itä
accusative	CD CD:n	CD:t
inessive	CD:ssä	CD:issä
elative	CD:stä	CD:istä
illative	CD:hen	CD:ihin
adessive	CD:llä	CD:illä
ablative	CD:ltä	CD:iltä
allative	CD:lle	CD:ille
essive	CD:nä	CD:inä
translative	CD:ksi	CD:iksi
instructive	–	CD:in
abessive	CD:ttä	CD:ittä
comitative	–	CD:ineen

French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:

CD

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /se.de/
Audio
(file)
Homophone: céder

Noun[edit]

CD m (plural CD)

CD (compact disk)

Derived terms[edit]

lecteur CD/lecteur de CD

German[edit]

CD

Etymology[edit]

From English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /tseˈdeː/
Audio
(file)

Noun[edit]

CD f (genitive CD, plural CDs or CD's or CD)

CD (compact disc)

Declension[edit]

Declension of CD

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	CD	die	CDs
genitive	einer	der	CD	der	CDs
dative	einer	der	CD	den	CDs
accusative	eine	die	CD	die	CDs

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seːdeː]
Audio
(file)
Rhymes: -deː

Noun[edit]

CD (plural CD-k)

CD (compact disc)

Declension[edit]

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	CD	CD-k
accusative	CD-t	CD-ket
dative	CD-nek	CD-knek
instrumental	CD-vel	CD-kkel
causal-final	CD-ért	CD-kért
translative	CD-vé	CD-kké
terminative	CD-ig	CD-kig
essive-formal	CD-ként	CD-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	CD-ben	CD-kben
superessive	CD-n	CD-ken
adessive	CD-nél	CD-knél
illative	CD-be	CD-kbe
sublative	CD-re	CD-kre
allative	CD-hez	CD-khez
elative	CD-ből	CD-kből
delative	CD-ről	CD-kről
ablative	CD-től	CD-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	CD-é	CD-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	CD-éi	CD-kéi

Possessive forms of CD
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	CD-m	CD-im
2nd person sing.	CD-d	CD-id
3rd person sing.	CD-je	CD-i
1st person plural	CD-nk	CD-ink
2nd person plural	CD-tek	CD-itek
3rd person plural	CD-jük	CD-ik

Synonyms[edit]

cédé

Derived terms[edit]

CD-lejátszó

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Initialism of ceirnín dlúth (“compact disc”), but simultaneously a borrowing from English CD.

Noun[edit]

CD m

CD, compact disc

Japanese[edit]

CD (曖昧さ回避) on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology[edit]

From English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Tokyo) シーディー [shìídíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [3])
IPA^(key): [ɕiːdʲiː]

Noun[edit]

C(シー)D(ディー) • (shīdī)

Abbreviation of コンパクトディスク (konpakuto disuku, “compact disc”); a CD
それはヘビメタのＣ(シー)Ｄ(ディー)です。
Sore wa hebimeta no shīdī desu.
That is a heavy metal CD.
Abbreviation of キャッシュディスペンサー (kyasshu disupensā, “cash dispenser”); an ATM, cash machine
コンビニのＣ(シー)Ｄ(ディー)からお金(かね)を引(ひ)き出(だ)しました。
Konbini no shīdī kara o-kane o hikidashimashita.
I withdrew money from an ATM at a convenience store.

Mòcheno[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English CD.

Noun[edit]

CD f (plural CD)

CD (compact disc)

References[edit]

“CD” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

CD

Wikipedia ^no

Alternative forms[edit]

cd

Etymology[edit]

From English CD

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈseːˈdeː/
(Standard Eastern) IPA^(key): [ˈsêːˈděː]

Noun[edit]

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-er, definite plural CD-ene)

a CD (compact disc)

Synonyms[edit]

kompaktplate

References[edit]

“CD” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

Kompaktplate

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Alternative forms[edit]

cd

Etymology[edit]

From English CD

Noun[edit]

CD m (definite singular CD-en, indefinite plural CD-ar, definite plural CD-ane)

a CD (compact disc)

Synonyms[edit]

kompaktplate

References[edit]

“CD” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

cedê (uncommon)

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈse ˈde/, [ˈse ˈde]

IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈse ˈde/, [ˈse ˈðe]

Noun[edit]

CD m (plural CDs)

CD (compact-disc: a type optical data storage disc)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /siˈdi/

Noun[edit]

CD n (plural CD-uri)

CD, compact disc

Declension[edit]

Declension of CD

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) CD	CD-ul	(niște) CD-uri	CD-urile
genitive/dative	(unui) CD	CD-ului	(unor) CD-uri	CD-urilor
vocative	CD-ule		CD-urilor

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈde/, [θeˈð̞e]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈde/, [seˈð̞e]

Noun[edit]

CD m (plural CDs)

CD, compact disc
Synonyms: disco compacto, compacto

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English CD.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /siːˈdiː/

Noun[edit]

CD (definite accusative CD'yi, plural CD'ler)

CD, compact disc

Declension[edit]

Declension of CD

	singular	plural
nominative	CD	CDler / CD'ler
accusative	CD'yi	CDleri / CD'leri
dative	CD'ye	CDlere / CD'lere
locative	CD'de	CDlerde / CD'lerde
ablative	CD'den	CDlerden / CD'lerden
genitive	CD'nin	CDlerin / CD'lerin

Possession of CD

	singular	plural
benim (my)	CD'm	CDlerim / CD'lerim
senin (your)	CD'n	CDlerin / CD'lerin
onun (his/her/its)	CD'si	CDleri / CD'leri
bizim (our)	CD'miz	CDlerimiz / CD'lerimiz
sizin (your)	CD'niz	CDleriniz / CD'leriniz
onların (their)	CD'si / CDleri / CD'leri	CDleri / CD'leri

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Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Initialism of crynoddisg (“compact disc”), but simultaneously a borrowing from English CD.

Noun[edit]

CD m

CD, compact disc

CD

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