disc

• disk (mainly US, or for magnetic media. See usage note.)

From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

disc (plural discs)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

   A coin is a disc of metal.

2. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
3. Something resembling a disc.

   Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.

4. A vinyl phonograph / gramophone record.

   Turn the disc over, after it has finished.

5. (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
6. (disc golf) A Frisbee.

See usage notes at the disk entry.

disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)

1. (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.

• CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, SCID

Borrowed from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈdisk/

disc m (plural discs or discos)

1. disc
2. (computing) disk
3. (sports) discus

• disc compacte
• disc d'arranc
• disc dur
• disc flexible

• “disc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Proto-Germanic *diskaz, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Cognate with Old Saxon disk, Old Dutch disc (Dutch dis (“table”)), Old High German tisc (German Tisch (“table”)), Old Norse diskr (“plate”).

• IPA^(key): /diʃ/

disċ m

1. plate, dish

• Middle English: disch, dish, disc
  • English: dish
    • Tok Pisin: dis
  • Scots: dish

disc m

1. Alternative spelling of disk

Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

disc n (plural discuri)

1. (technology) disk, disc
2. (music) disk
3. (sports) discus
4. (anatomy) disc

From Greek δίσκος (dískos), partly through a Slavic intermediate.

disc n (plural discuri)

1. disk (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money

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