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Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of English Aramaic.

Symbol

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arc

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Aramaic.

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English

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A geometric arc, upper right.
An electric arc between two nails.

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcus
Old French arcbor.
Middle English ark
English arc

    Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

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    Noun

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    arc (plural arcs)

    1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
    2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
      • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
        The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.
    3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
      Swing it from side to side in a high arc overhead.
      an arc of pupils around their teacher.
    4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
    5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
    6. (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc. [from 20th c.]
      • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎[1], archived from the original on 29 April 2015:
        For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.
      1. (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
        I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc.
        I miss my drawing arc. I feel like I was much more creative back then.
    7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
    8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
    9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
    10. (film) An arclight.
      • 2012, Kris Malkiewicz, Film Lighting:
        For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.

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    Descendants

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    • → Irish: arc
    • → Maltese: ark
    • → Welsh: arc

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    Verb

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    arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or (rare) arcking, simple past and past participle arced or (rare) arcked)

    1. (ambitransitive) To move following a curved path.
      • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1, page 106:
        A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
      • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC Sport‎[2], archived from the original on 26 November 2020:
        Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
      • 2024, Patricia Taxxon, “Big Wheel”, in Bicycle:
        The big wheel in the sky
        He arcs o'er miles and miles
    2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
      • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):
        His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image.
    3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

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    Catalan

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

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    Noun

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    arc m (plural arcs)

    1. bow (weapon)
    2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
    3. (geometry) arc
    4. (architecture) arch

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    French

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

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    Noun

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    arc m (plural arcs)

    1. bow (weapon)
    2. arc (curve)
    3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
    4. (architecture) arch
    5. (fiction) story arc

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    Anagrams

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    Friulian

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin arcus.

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    arc m (plural arcs)

    1. bow (weapon)
    2. (architecture) arch
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    Hungarian

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    Etymology

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    An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.[1][2] Compare words in other languages which are built the same way like Ossetian цӕсгом (cæsgom, “face”, literally “eye-mouth”).

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    arc (plural arcok)

    1. (anatomy) face
      Synonyms: (informal) kép, (colloquial) pofa
    2. (anatomy) cheek
    3. (figuratively) sight, view, aspect, appearance
    4. (slang, often following jó) chap, guy, dude, bloke, fellow

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    Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative arc arcok
    accusative arcot arcokat
    dative arcnak arcoknak
    instrumental arccal arcokkal
    causal-final arcért arcokért
    translative arccá arcokká
    terminative arcig arcokig
    essive-formal arcként arcokként
    essive-modal arcul —
    inessive arcban arcokban
    superessive arcon arcokon
    adessive arcnál arcoknál
    illative arcba arcokba
    sublative arcra arcokra
    allative archoz arcokhoz
    elative arcból arcokból
    delative arcról arcokról
    ablative arctól arcoktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular     		arcé arcoké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural     		arcéi arcokéi
    Possessive forms of arc
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. arcom arcaim
    2nd person sing. arcod arcaid
    3rd person sing. arca arcai
    1st person plural arcunk arcaink
    2nd person plural arcotok arcaitok
    3rd person plural arcuk arcaik

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    1. ^ arc in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
    2. ^ arc in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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    • arc in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
    • arc in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

    Irish

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    From Old Irish orc (“piglet”).

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    arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

    1. piglet
    2. diminutive animal or person
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    From Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

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    arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

    1. (mathematics, geometry) arc
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    Noun

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    arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

    1. alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

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    Declension of arc (first declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative arc airc
    vocative a airc a arca
    genitive airc arc
    dative arc airc
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an t-arc na hairc
    genitive an airc na n-arc
    dative leis an arc
    don arc     		leis na hairc

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    Mutated forms of arc
    radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
    arc n-arc harc not applicable

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    Occitan

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    Inherited from Latin arcus.

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    arc m (plural arcs)

    1. bow
    2. arch, arc

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    Old French

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      Inherited from Latin arcus.

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      arc oblique singular, m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

      1. bow (a weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
      2. (architecture) arch

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      Adjective

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      arc

      1. alternative form of arg

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      • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

      Romanian

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

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      arc n (plural arcuri)

      1. bow (a weapon)
      2. (architecture) arch

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      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative arc arcul arcuri arcurile
      genitive-dative arc arcului arcuri arcurilor
      vocative arcule arcurilor

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      arc n (plural arce)

      1. (geometry) arc

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      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative arc arcul arce arcele
      genitive-dative arc arcului arce arcelor
      vocative arcule arcelor

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      Scottish Gaelic

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      From Old Irish orc (“piglet”).

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      arc m (obsolete)

      1. sow[1]
      2. piglet

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      From Middle Irish erc (“speckled animal”).

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      arc m (obsolete)

      1. lizard
      2. stag, hind

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      arc f

      1. bee, wasp[1]

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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      arc m (obsolete)

      1. body
      2. dwarf
      3. bear
      4. collection
      5. hero

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      arc f

      1. impost, tax

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      1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 arc in Edward Dwelly (1911), “arc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN; accessed on 7 May 2015.

      Welsh

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      From English arc.

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      arc m (plural arcau)

      1. (sciences, mathematics) arc

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      • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “arc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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