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 (“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!‎^[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/

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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): /ˈdis.ko/
• 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): [ˈdɪs.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪is.ko]

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

• 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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• disco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[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
   • 2020 August 5, Angel Jiménez de Luis, “Estas son las nuevas iMac de Apple”, in CNN en Español‎^[5]:

     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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• 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)