arc
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: ark
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Noun
arc (plural arcs)
- (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.]
- (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
- A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
- A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
- (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
- A story arc. [from 20th c.]
- (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
- (graph theory) A directed edge.
- (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
Synonyms
- (curve): curve, swoop
- (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
- (directed edge): arrow, directed edge
Derived terms
Translations
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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)
- (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.
- 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)
- (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.
- 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York: Knopf, Part One,
- (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.
Related terms
External links
- “arc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “arc”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “arc”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
Derived terms
See also
External links
- “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.
Pronunciation
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- arc (curve)
- (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
- (architecture) arch
Derived terms
See also
Anagrams
External links
- “arc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Etymology
Noun
arc m (plural arcs)
- bow (weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Related terms
See also
Hungarian
Etymology
The original form of the word was orca.
Pronunciation
Noun
arc (plural arcok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- piglet
- 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)
Derived terms
- arclampa (“arc-lamp”)
Etymology 3
Noun
arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)
- Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old French
Etymology
Noun
arc oblique singular, m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)
- bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
- (architecture) arch
Coordinate terms
- (bow): saete
Descendants
- French: arc
Old High German
Pronunciation
Adjective
arc
- 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)
- bow (a weapon)
- (architecture) arch
Declension
Noun
arc n (plural arce)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
arc f
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