disco
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Etymology 1
From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.
Pronunciation
Noun
disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)
- (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.
- 1986, Morrissey & Johnny Marr (lyrics and music), “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
- (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.”
Derived terms
- antidisco
- avant-disco
- blue light disco
- deader than disco
- disco ball
- disco biscuit
- disco-dance
- disco dancing
- discoer
- discoey
- discofied
- disco fries
- disco funk
- discoish
- discolike
- disco-like
- discomania
- disco matanga
- disco nap
- disco perm
- disco polo
- disco rice
- disco stick
- disco-style
- discowear
- Eurodisco
- Italo disco
- mutant disco
- nondisco
- nu-disco
- postdisco
- post-disco
- predisco
- pre-disco
- roller disco
- silent disco
- space disco
- Thai disco
Descendants
Translations
discotheque — see also night club
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type of music
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Verb
disco (third-person singular simple present discos, present participle discoing, simple past and past participle discoed)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To go to discotheques.
Etymology 2
Noun
disco (plural discos)
- (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.
- (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
Pronunciation
Noun
disco f (plural discos)
- Clipping of discoteca.
Derived terms
Etymology
Borrowed from English disco. Equivalent to a shortening of discotheek.
Pronunciation
Noun
disco m (plural disco's, diminutive discootje n)
- (countable) a discotheque, a nightclub
- Synonym: discotheek
- (uncountable) Disco (genre of dance music)
Derived terms
Pronunciation
Noun
disco
- Alternative form of disko
Declension
| Inflection of disco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | disco | discot | |
| genitive | discon | discojen | |
| partitive | discoa | discoja | |
| illative | discoon | discoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | disco | discot | |
| accusative | nom. | disco | discot |
| gen. | discon | ||
| genitive | discon | discojen | |
| partitive | discoa | discoja | |
| inessive | discossa | discoissa | |
| elative | discosta | discoista | |
| illative | discoon | discoihin | |
| adessive | discolla | discoilla | |
| ablative | discolta | discoilta | |
| allative | discolle | discoille | |
| essive | discona | discoina | |
| translative | discoksi | discoiksi | |
| abessive | discotta | discoitta | |
| instructive | — | discoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Noun
disco m or f (plural discos)
- disco (music genre)
- disco (dance)
- (obsolete) disco; discotheque
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of desco, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
Noun
disco m (plural dischi)
Related terms
Anagrams
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) 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
- (transitive) to learn
- (transitive) (Late Latin) to teach
- (drama, transitive) to study, practice
- Synonym: studeō
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
discō
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
- we know from experience: experti scimus, didicimus
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English disco.
Pronunciation
Noun
disco n (indeclinable)
Further reading
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
disco m (plural discos)
- disc (a thin, flat, circular plate)
- (athletics) discus
- disc, Frisbee
- Synonym: frisbee
- (uncountable) disco (type of music)
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
disco
Etymology
Adjective
disco m or f or n (indeclinable)
Declension
Noun
disco m (uncountable)
- disco (music genre)
Declension
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Short for discoteca.
Noun
disco f (plural discos)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). Compare English disc, dish, discus and dais.
Noun
disco m (plural discos)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Basque: disko
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
disco
Related terms
Further reading
- “disco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Alternative forms
Noun
disco n or c
- (countable, neuter) a disco, a discotheque
- Synonym: diskotek
- (uncountable, common) disco; a type of music
- Synonyms: discomusik, diskomusik
Declension
Declension of disco
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | disco | discos |
| definite | discon | discons | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Related terms
References
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