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Definitions and meaning of disco

disco

Etymology 1

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
• Hyphenation: dis‧co

Noun

disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)

1. (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.

   Synonyms: club, nightclub
2. (uncountable, music) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cebuano: disko
• → Esperanto: diskoo
• → Dutch: disco
• → Polish: disco
• → Romanian: disco
• → Swahili: disko
• → Tagalog: disko
• → Turkish: disko

Translations

Verb

disco (third-person singular simple present discos, present participle discoing, simple past and past participle discoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.
2. (intransitive) To go to discotheques.

Etymology 2

Clipping of discovery

Noun

disco (plural discos)

1. (US, law, informal) discovery (pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

   You don't need to worry about these details at the complaint stage, we can get them in disco.

2. (US, law, informal) discovery (materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered)

   Has the disco come in from the defendants yet? We sent them requests almost six weeks ago.

Anagrams

• Dosci, sodic

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdis.ku]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈdis.ko]

Noun

disco f (plural discos)

1. Clipping of discoteca.

Derived terms

• música disco

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English disco. Equivalent to a shortening of discotheek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.koː/
• Hyphenation: dis‧co

Noun

disco m (plural disco's, diminutive discootje n)

1. (countable) A discotheque, a nightclub.

   Synonym: discotheek

2. (uncountable) Disco (genre of dance music).

Derived terms

• discobal
• discodip
• discolamp
• discomuziek
• discozwemmen

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdisko/, [ˈdis̠ko̞]

Noun

disco

1. Alternative form of disko

Declension

French

Noun

disco m or f (plural discos)

1. disco (music genre)
2. disco (dance)
3. (obsolete) disco; discotheque

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of desco, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.sko/
• Rhymes: -isko
• Hyphenation: dì‧sco

Noun

disco m (plural dischi)

1. disc, disk
2. (anatomy) disc

   Synonym: disco intervertebrale

3. (athletics) discus

Related terms

Anagrams

• scodi, sdico

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.koː/, [ˈd̪ɪs̠koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.ko/, [ˈd̪isko]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *diskō, from earlier *dikskō, from Proto-Indo-European *di-dḱ-ské-ti, a reduplicated durative, inchoative and suffixed verb from the root *deḱ- (“to take”). From the same root as doceō; unrelated to discipulus.

Cognates include Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai), whereas δαῆναι (daênai) is attributed to another root, *dens-, together with δεδαώς (dedaṓs), δήνεα (dḗnea) and διδάσκω (didáskō).

Verb

discō (present infinitive discere, perfect active didicī, supine discitum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to learn

   Synonyms: capiō, percipiō, concipiō, comprehendō, intellegō, cognoscō, noscō, agnoscō, animadvertō, calleō, sciō

   artem discere ― to learn an art

   aliquid ab aliquo discere ― to learn something from someone

2. (transitive) (Late Latin) to teach

   Synonyms: ērudiō, ēducō, doceō, ēdoceō, īnstruō, imbuō, fingō

3. (drama, transitive) to study, practice

   Synonym: studeō

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dēdiscō
• ēdiscō

Descendants

• → Proto-Brythonic:
  • Breton: deskiñ
  • Cornish: dyski
  • Welsh: dysgu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

discō

1. dative/ablative singular of discus

References

• “disco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “disco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• disco in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• disco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English disco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -iskɔ
• Syllabification: dis‧co

Noun

disco n (indeclinable)

1. disco, disco music
2. (slang) dance party

   Synonym: dyskoteka

Further reading

• disco in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• disco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -isku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃku
• Hyphenation: dis‧co

Noun

disco m (plural discos)

1. disc (a thin, flat, circular plate)
2. (athletics) discus
3. disc, Frisbee

   Synonym: frisbee

4. (uncountable) disco (type of music)

Derived terms

• toca-discos

Related terms

• disquete

Etymology 2

Verb

disco

1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English disco or French disco.

Adjective

disco m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. disco

Declension

Noun

disco m (uncountable)

1. disco (music genre)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdisko/ [ˈd̪is.ko]
• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: dis‧co

Etymology 1

Short for discoteca.

Noun

disco f (plural discos)

1. club, discotheque

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). Compare English disc, dish, discus and dais.

Noun

disco m (plural discos)

1. disc, disk
2. phonograph record or disc
3. rotary dial
4. (athletics) discus

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Basque: disko

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

disco

1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

Related terms

Further reading

• “disco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Alternative forms

• disko

Noun

disco n or c

1. (countable, neuter) a disco, a discotheque

   Synonym: diskotek

2. (uncountable, common) disco; a type of music

   Synonyms: discomusik, diskomusik

Declension

Related terms

• diskotek

References

• disco in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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