# disc
## English
### 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”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dĭsk, IPA: /dɪsk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪsk

### Noun

disc (plural discs)
* A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
    A coin is a disc of metal.
* (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
* Something resembling a disc.
    Venus's disc cut off light from the Sun.
** 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 300:[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.
* A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
    Turn the disc over, after it has finished.
* (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
* (disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc.; Synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee;

#### Usage notes

* See usage notes at the disk entry.

#### Derived terms

* disc golf (frisbee golf)
* time disc
* ultimate disc (ultimate frisbee)
* abrasive disc
* accretion disc
* Airy disc
* Alderson disc
* amphidisc
* bidisc
* brake disc
* clutch disc
* compact disc
* compact disc drive
* coverdisc
* death disc
* degenerative disc disease
* digital versatile disc
* discal
* disc brake
* disc drive
* discectomy
* discer
* discette
* discful
* disc horse
* disciferous
* discitis
* disc jockey
* discless
* disclike
* discmag
* Discman
* disc number
* discocone
* discoconic
* discogenic
* discogram
* discoid
* discophile
* discophilia
* discotomy
* disc owl
* disc rot
* discstone
* disc-tongued frog
* facial disc
* fixed disc
* fixed disc drive
* Flexi disc
* flexi disc
* flippy disc
* floppy disc
* floppy disc drive
* flying disc golf
* galactic disc
* germinal disc
* hard disc
* hard disc drive
* holodisc
* ice disc
* imaginal disc
* intervertebral disc
* Laserdisc
* laser disc
* magnetodisc
* megalodisc
* microdisc
* MiniDisc
* minidisc
* multidisc
* nanodisc
* Nebra sky disc
* Nipkov disc
* Nipkow disc
* optical disc
* optical disc drive
* optic disc
* parking disc
* phonodisc
* photodisc
* picture disc
* Poincaré disc
* polydisc
* protoplanetary disc
* scattered disc
* scattered disc object
* Secchi disc
* separating disc
* Siegel disc
* slipped disc
* slot-loading disc drive
* spinal disc herniation
* squamodisc
* sun disc
* tax disc
* tree disc
* trichodiscoma
* videodisc

#### Translations
### Verb

disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)
* (agriculture) To harrow with a disc harrow.
** 1901 October 11, “Discing Lucerne”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 16, page 488:It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.
* (aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
    In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.

### Anagrams

* CD-Is, CD-is, CDIs, CIDs, DCIS, DCIs, ICDs, SCID

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdisk]

### Noun

disc m (plural discs or discos)
* disc
* (music) Clipping of disc fonogràfic.
* (computing) disk
* (sports) discus

#### Derived terms

* disc compacte
* disc d'arranc
* disc dur
* disc flexible
* disc fonogràfic
* disc òptic
* punxadiscos

#### Related terms

* discjòquei
* discoteca

### Further reading

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

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk, from Latin discus, originally from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diʃ/

### Noun

disċ m
* plate, dish

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* hūsldisċ

#### Descendants

* Middle English: disch, dish, disc
** English: dish
*** Tok Pisin: dis
** Scots: dish
** Yola: dishe

## Old Saxon
### Noun

disc m
* Alternative spelling of disk

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

disc n (plural discuri)
* (technology) disk, disc
* (music) disk
* (sports) discus
* (anatomy) disc

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

disc n (plural discuri)
* dish (flat round object), especially one used in church services to collect money

##### See also

* placă