arc

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
  • Homophone: ark
A geometric arc, upper right.
An electric arc between two nails.

Noun

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.]
  3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
  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 between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
  6. A story arc. [from 20th c.]
  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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

directed edge — see directed edge

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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[2]:
      Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
  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: Knopf, Part One,
      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.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 170: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

Derived terms

See also

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

See also

Hungarian

Etymology

The original form of the word was orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

arc (plural arcok)

  1. face

Declension

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

Derived terms

Compound words
Expressions

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. piglet
  2. diminutive animal or person
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. (mathematics, geometry) arc
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

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

Declension

Declension of arc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arc airc
Vocative a airc a arca
Genitive airc arc
Dative arc airc

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-arc na hairc
Genitive an airc na n-arc
Dative leis an arc

don arc

leis na hairc

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
arc n-arc harc not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old French

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

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

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

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • French: arc

Old High German

Pronunciation

Adjective

arc

  1. Alternative form of arg

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

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

Declension

Declension of arc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) arc arcul (niște) arcuri arcurile
genitive/dative (unui) arc arcului (unor) arcuri arcurilor
vocative arcule arcurilor

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

  1. (geometry) arc

Declension

Declension of arc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) arc arcul (niște) arce arcele
genitive/dative (unui) arc arcului (unor) arce arcelor
vocative arcule arcelor

Derived terms

See also

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

arc f

  1. Bee (apoidea).[1]
  2. Wasp (vespidae).[1]
  3. Impost, tax.[1]
  4. "Femen."(sic)[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 arc in Edward Dwelly (1911) “arc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN; accessed on 7 May 2015.
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