disc

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭsk, IPA^(key): /dɪsk/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

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.

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, SCID

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)

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

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *disk-, 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diʃ/

Noun

disċ m (nominative plural disċas)

1. plate, bowl

Noun

disc m

1. Alternative spelling of disk

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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