Arc in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Arc

You can make 3 words from 'arc' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'arc'
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3 letters words from 'arc'

ARC 5

CAR 5

2 letters words from 'arc'

AR 2

Definitions and meaning of arc

arc

Etymology

From Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: äk, IPA^(key): /ɑːk/
• (US) enPR: ärk, IPA^(key): /ɑɹk/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: ark

Noun

arc (plural arcs)

1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
6. A story arc. [from 20th c.]
7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
10. (film) An arclight.

Synonyms

• (curve): curve, swoop
• (circular arc): circular arc, circle segment
• (directed edge): arrow, directed edge

Derived terms

• arcweld
• mercury arc rectifier

Translations

Verb

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
   • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1 (page 106)

     A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

Related terms

• arch

Further reading

• arc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• arc in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• arc at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• CAR, CRA, Car, RAC, RCA, acr-, car, rac-

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan arc, from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈark/
• Rhymes: -aɾk

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
3. (geometry) arc
4. (architecture) arch

Derived terms

• arc de Sant Martí
• arc de triomf
• arc iris
• arcada
• arcbotant
• arcar
• arquejar
• arquer

See also

• fletxa

Further reading

• “arc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “arc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁk/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. arc (curve)
3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
4. (architecture) arch
5. (fiction) story arc

Derived terms

See also

• flèche f
• arche f

Anagrams

• car

Further reading

• “arc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Related terms

• arcâ

See also

• frece

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Hungarian

Etymology

An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡s]
• Rhymes: -ɒrt͡s

Noun

arc (plural arcok)

1. (anatomy) face

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• arc in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. piglet
2. diminutive animal or person

Alternative forms

• earc

Synonyms

• arcachán
• arcadán

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. (mathematics, geometry) arc

Derived terms

• arclampa (“arc-lamp”)

Etymology 3

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

1. Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "arc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 orc (‘young pig’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾk/

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

1. bow
2. arch, arc

Derived terms

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

1. bow (weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
2. (architecture) arch

Coordinate terms

• (bow): saete

Descendants

• → Middle English: ark, arke
  • English: arc
• French: arc

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Old High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ark/

Adjective

arc

1. Alternative form of arg

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

1. bow (a weapon)
2. (architecture) arch

Declension

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

1. (geometry) arc

Declension

Derived terms

• arcadă
• arcan
• arcatură
• arcaș
• arcui
• arcuibil
• arcuire
• arcuit
• arcuitură
• arculeț
• arcuș

Related terms

• arcar

See also

• săgeată

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arxk/

Noun

arc f

1. Bee (apoidea).
2. Wasp (vespidae).
3. Impost, tax.
4. "Femen."(sic)

References

Source: wiktionary.org

• a part of the circumference of a circle or other curve.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)