disco

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskəʊ/

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

disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)

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

   Synonyms: club, nightclub

   • 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

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!‎^[1], 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.”

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

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^[2], 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^[3]:

     Learning that a discoing sex appeal has returned to the runways is a little like hearing that Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb are reuniting.

Clipping of discovery

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.

• Dosci, sodic

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

disco f (plural discos)

1. Clipping of discoteca.

• música disco

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.koː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dis‧co

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

1. (countable) a discotheque, a nightclub

   Synonym: discotheek

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

• discobal
• discodip
• discolamp
• discomuziek
• discozwemmen

• IPA^(key): /ˈdisko/, [ˈdis̠ko̞]
• Rhymes: -isko

disco

1. Alternative form of disko

disco m or f (plural discos)

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

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

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

disco m (plural dischi)

1. disc, disk
2. (anatomy) disc

   Synonym: disco intervertebrale

3. (athletics) discus

• scodi, sdico

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

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).

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 of discō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	discō	discis	discit	discimus	discitis	discunt
	imperfect	discēbam	discēbās	discēbat	discēbāmus	discēbātis	discēbant
	future	discam	discēs	discet	discēmus	discētis	discent
	perfect	didicī	didicistī	didicit	didicimus	didicistis	didicērunt, didicēre
	pluperfect	didiceram	didicerās	didicerat	didicerāmus	didicerātis	didicerant
	future perfect	didicerō	didiceris	didicerit	didicerimus	didiceritis	didicerint
passive	present	discor	disceris, discere	discitur	discimur	disciminī	discuntur
	imperfect	discēbar	discēbāris, discēbāre	discēbātur	discēbāmur	discēbāminī	discēbantur
	future	discar	discēris, discēre	discētur	discēmur	discēminī	discentur
	perfect	discitus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	discitus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	discitus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	discam	discās	discat	discāmus	discātis	discant
	imperfect	discerem	discerēs	disceret	discerēmus	discerētis	discerent
	perfect	didicerim	didicerīs	didicerit	didicerīmus	didicerītis	didicerint
	pluperfect	didicissem	didicissēs	didicisset	didicissēmus	didicissētis	didicissent
passive	present	discar	discāris, discāre	discātur	discāmur	discāminī	discantur
	imperfect	discerer	discerēris, discerēre	discerētur	discerēmur	discerēminī	discerentur
	perfect	discitus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	discitus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	disce	—	—	discite	—
	future	—	discitō	discitō	—	discitōte	discuntō
passive	present	—	discere	—	—	disciminī	—
	future	—	discitor	discitor	—	—	discuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		discere	didicisse	discitūrum esse	discī	discitum esse	discitum īrī
participles		discēns	—	discitūrus	—	discitus	discendus, discundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		discendī	discendō	discendum	discendō	discitum	discitū

• dēdiscō
• ēdiscō

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

discō

1. dative/ablative singular of discus

• “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.
  • 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
    

Unadapted borrowing from English disco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis.kɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iskɔ
• Syllabification: dis‧co

disco n (indeclinable)

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

   Synonym: dyskoteka

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

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

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)

• toca-discos

• disquete

disco

1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

Borrowed from English disco or French disco.

disco m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. disco

disco m (uncountable)

1. disco (music genre)

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

Short for discoteca.

disco f (plural discos)

1. club, discotheque

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

disco m (plural discos)

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

• → Basque: disko

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

disco

1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

• “disco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• disko

disco n or c

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

   Synonym: diskotek

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

   Synonyms: discomusik, diskomusik

• diskotek

• disco in Svensk ordbok (SO)