# discus
## English
### Etymology

1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA: /ˈdɪs.kəs/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪskəs

### Noun

discus (plural discuses)
* A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
** August 18 2004, Frank Fitzpatrick, “The amazing story of the first discus medal winner”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:He [Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.
** August 23 2008, John Branch, “Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way”, in The New York Times‎:[Gerd] Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses—he usually travels with about five of them, […]
* (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.
** 1929 July 4, Harry L. Borba, “The Superman of Track”, in The Vernon Daily Record, volume 4, number 209, Vernon, Texas, page 6:For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.
** 2008 September 8, “Weir lays down marker in Beijing”, in BBC‎:And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest, […]
* (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
** 2008, Carol Roberts, “History of Discus”, in North American Discus Association‎, archived from the original on 8 December 2008:The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.
* (rare, dated) A chakram.
** 1893, K. M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, translation of original by Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, Adi Parva, Section XIX:And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.
** 1899, Thomas William Rhys Davids, transl., Sàmañña-Phàla Sutta, translation of original by Digha Nikaya:If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh, […]

#### Usage notes

* Although an alternative Latinate plural disci is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.

#### Synonyms

* (round plate): quoit

#### Derived terms

* discus fish
* discus throw
* discus thrower

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). First attested in the eighteenth century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɪskʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dis‧cus
* Rhymes: -ɪskʏs

### Noun

discus m (plural discussen, diminutive discusje n)
* discus
    Synonym: werpschijf

#### Derived terms

* discuswerpen
* discuswerper

#### Related terms

* dis
* disc
* diskette

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: diskus

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠kʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdis.kus/, [ˈd̪iskus]

### Noun

discus m (genitive discī); second declension
* a discus, quoit
* a dish shaped like a discus
* disc of a sundial
* a plate
* (Medieval Latin) table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Old French: deis, dois
** French: dais
** → Middle English: deis
*** English: dais
*** Scots: deas, deece
* Old Italian: desco
** Italian: desco
** → Medieval Latin: desca
*** → Middle English: deske, desque
**** English: desk
***** → Irish: deasc
***** → Welsh: desg
**** Scots: dask
* Old Occitan:
** Occitan: des
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: desca, desga
* → Albanian: dhisk
* → Albanian: dishkë
** Albanian: dishtë
* → Asturian: discu
* → Catalan: disc
* → Danish: diskos
* → Dutch: discus
* → French: disque
** → English: disc
** → Norman: disque
** → Persian: دیسک (disk)
** → Romanian: disc
** → Turkish: disk
* → English: discus
* → Galician: disco
* → Proto-West Germanic: *disk (see there for further descendants)
* → Hebrew: דִּיסְקוּס (dískus)
* → Italian: disco
* → Portuguese: disco
* → Sicilian: discu
* → Spanish: disco
** → Basque: disko
* → Swedish: diskus
* → Middle Welsh: dyskyl
** Welsh: dysgl

### References

* “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "discus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* discus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “discus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “discus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin