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See also: Disco and discó

English

Etymology 1

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

Pronunciation

Noun

disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)

  1. (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque (“nightclub for dancing”).
    Synonyms: club, nightclub
    • 1986, Morrissey & Johnny Marr, “Panic”, in The World Won’t Listen, performed by The Smiths:
      Burn down the disco / Hang the blessed DJ / Because the music that they constantly play / It says nothing to me about my life
  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.
    • 2009, Marcus Reeves, Somebody Scream!‎, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      And black music became a hot commodity in the form of disco, its lyrics and rhythm laced with a palpable (even ethnic) amiguity, helping people dance and escape their concerns. Even the cry of “burn, baby, burn”, a popular chant during many a 1960s urban rebellion, was co-opted by the times, becoming the chorus for the 1977 dance hit “Disco Inferno.”
  3. (British) A dance, a social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
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.
    • 2013, Roger Ebert, “B.A.P.S.”, in I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie‎, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN:
      The cause of his ill health is left a little obscure, and no wonder, because shortly before his dreadful deathbed scene he's well enough to join the women in a wild night of disco dancing. You have not lived until you've seen Martin Landau discoing.
  2. (intransitive) To go to discotheques.
    • 2009 February 16, Cathy Horyn, “Designers Square Off: Sexy vs. Classy”, in New York Times‎:
      Learning that a discoing sex appeal has returned to the runways is a little like hearing that Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb are reuniting.

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.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

disco f (plural discos)

  1. clipping of discoteca

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɪs.koː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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

Finnish

Pronunciation

Noun

disco

  1. alternative form of disko

Declension

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French

Noun

disco m or f (plural discos)

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

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdis.ko/
  • Rhymes: -isko
  • Hyphenation: dì‧sco

Noun

disco m (plural dischi)

  1. disc, disk
  2. (anatomy) disc
    Synonym: disco intervertebrale
  3. (athletics) discus

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Latin

Pronunciation

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
    Aut disce aut discēde.
    Either learn or go away.
    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
   Conjugation of discō (third conjugation)
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Derived terms
Descendants

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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • “disco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • we know from experience: experti scimus, didicimus
    • to be well-informed, erudite: multa cognita, percepta habere, multa didicisse
    • to be educated by some one: litteras discere ab aliquo
    • to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
    • to learn, study music: artem musicam discere, tractare
    • to learn to play a stringed instrument: fidibus discere (De Sen. 8. 26)
    • to study a piece, of the actor); to get a piece played, rehearse it: fabulam docere (διδάσκειν) (of the writer) (opp. fabulam discere
    • to know Latin: latinam linguam scire or didicisse
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Polish

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English disco.

Pronunciation

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
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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

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

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Noun

disco m (uncountable)

  1. disco (music genre)

Declension

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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
    • 2020 August 5, Angel Jiménez de Luis, “Estas son las nuevas iMac de Apple”, in CNN en Español‎:
      Todas las configuraciones arrancan con 8 GB de RAM aunque por supuesto puede configurarse con más memoria y por primera vez, todas las iMac tienen discos SSD en lugar unidades Fusion Drive para los modelos más asequibles.
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  2. phonograph record or disc
  3. rotary dial
  4. (athletics) discus
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

disco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

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Swedish

Alternative forms

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

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References

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