disc English · revision 7468

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1664|origins=grc δίσκος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dɪsk/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|disque]] or its source Latin [[m|la|discus|t=quoit, dish]],^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998)^(SOED 2002) from Greek [[m|grc|δίσκος|tr=dískos|t=quoit, dish, disc of the sun]] (see [[discus]]).^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021) It is a doublet of [[dais]], [[desk]], discus and [[dish]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Cresswell 2021) Etymonline describes disc as the Latinate spelling preferred in British English for most uses of [[disk]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The seemingly flat round face of the sun, moon or a planet: 1664, written disk.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The discus or quoit of Greek games is from 1715–20,^(OED 1989) with the spelling disc from about 1727.^(Barnhart 1988) A thin circular plate of any material is from 1803.^(OED 1989) The anatomical disc, the kind that people slip, is from the mid-19th century.^(Cresswell 2021) A phonograph record is from 1888, a year after Emile Berliner patented the gramophone, which used a flat disc instead of a cylinder.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) A disc for storing computer data is from 1947,^(OED 1989) usually spelled disk in that sense everywhere.^(Cresswell 2021)^(SOED 2002) The verb, to work soil with a disc harrow, is chiefly American and New Zealand, from the late 19th century.^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1664 – the face of the sun or moon.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * c. 1727 – a discus, spelled disc.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1803 – a thin circular plate.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1888 – a phonograph record.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1947 – in computing.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A flat, circular [[plate]] or object.^(Collins 2023)

+ # Something that looks like this, such as the sun's face.^(Collins 2023)

+ # A [[gramophone]] record, a [[compact disc]] or similar recording.^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(anatomy)'' A roughly circular, flat structure, such as one between the [[vertebra|alt=vertebrae]].^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[discoid]]

+ * [[discophile]]

+ * [[MiniDisc]]

+ * [[videodisc]]

+ * [[compact disc]]

+ * [[disc brake]]

+ * [[disc jockey]]

+ * [[laser disc]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[disk]]

+ * [[discus]]

+ * [[dish]]

+ * [[desk]]

+ * [[dais]]

+ * [[discotheque]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ British English prefers disc for most senses;^(Etymonline)^(Collins 2023) American English generally uses disk, except for recordings,^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) and disk is the usual form in computing.^(SOED 2002)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}