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See also: arç, arc-, ārc-, Arc, and ARC

Translingual

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Symbol

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arc

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Aramaic.

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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A geometric arc, upper right.
An electric arc between two nails.

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English ark, from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos (“bow, arrow”). Doublet of arch, arco, and arrow.

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Noun

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arc (plural arcs)

  1. (astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon. [from 14th c.]
  2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
  3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
  4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
  5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
  6. (narratology) A story arc. [from 20th c.]
    • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.
  7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
  9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
  10. (film) An arclight.
    • 2012, Kris Malkiewicz, Film Lighting:
      For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.

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Verb

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arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or arcking, simple past and past participle arced or arcked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.
    • 2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1, page 106:
      A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.
    • 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC‎[3]:
      Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.
    • 2024, Patricia Taxxon (lyrics and music), “Big Wheel”, in Bicycle:
      The big wheel in the sky
      He arcs o'er miles and miles
  2. (transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.
    • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):
      His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arked before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read in the Bible and found so hard to image.
  3. (intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

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Noun

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arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. (music) bow (used to play string instruments)
  3. (geometry) arc
  4. (architecture) arch

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

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Noun

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arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. arc (curve)
  3. (geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment
  4. (architecture) arch
  5. (fiction) story arc

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Anagrams

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Friulian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin arcus.

Noun

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arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow (weapon)
  2. (architecture) arch
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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An archaic compound word of orr (“nose”) and száj (“mouth”), via Proto-Finno-Ugric elements. The original form of these two words was or and szá, the compound word orszá. Over time, the final vowel became short (orsza), the sz changed to c (orca), today a poetic or archaic version. The next change was the initial o to a (arca) which felt as a possessive form and later shortened to the current term.[1][2]

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Noun

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arc (plural arcok)

  1. (anatomy) face
    Synonyms: (informal) kép, (colloquial) pofa
  2. (anatomy) cheek
  3. (figuratively) sight, view, aspect, appearance
  4. (slang, often following jó) chap, guy, dude, bloke, fellow

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative arc arcok
accusative arcot arcokat
dative arcnak arcoknak
instrumental arccal arcokkal
causal-final arcért arcokért
translative arccá arcokká
terminative arcig arcokig
essive-formal arcként arcokként
essive-modal arcul —
inessive arcban arcokban
superessive arcon arcokon
adessive arcnál arcoknál
illative arcba arcokba
sublative arcra arcokra
allative archoz arcokhoz
elative arcból arcokból
delative arcról arcokról
ablative arctól arcoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		arcé arcoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		arcéi arcokéi
Possessive forms of arc
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. arcom arcaim
2nd person sing. arcod arcaid
3rd person sing. arca arcai
1st person plural arcunk arcaink
2nd person plural arcotok arcaitok
3rd person plural arcuk arcaik

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Compound words
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References

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  1. ^ arc in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
  2. ^ arc in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

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  • arc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • arc in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Irish

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

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arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. piglet
  2. diminutive animal or person
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

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arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. (mathematics, geometry) arc
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

Declension

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Declension of arc (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative arc airc
vocative a airc a arca
genitive airc arc
dative arc airc
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-arc na hairc
genitive an airc na n-arc
dative leis an arc
don arc 		leis na hairc

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Mutated forms of arc
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
arc n-arc harc not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin arcus.

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Noun

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arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow
  2. arch, arc

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Old French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin arcus.

Noun

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arc oblique singular, m (oblique plural ars, nominative singular ars, nominative plural arc)

  1. bow (a weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string)
  2. (architecture) arch

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Descendants

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  • → Middle English: ark, arke
    • English: arc
  • French: arc

Old High German

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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arc

  1. Alternative form of arg

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  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin arcus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.

Noun

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arc n (plural arcuri)

  1. bow (a weapon)
  2. (architecture) arch

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative arc arcul arcuri arcurile
genitive-dative arc arcului arcuri arcurilor
vocative arcule arcurilor

Noun

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arc n (plural arce)

  1. (geometry) arc

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative arc arcul arce arcele
genitive-dative arc arcului arce arcelor
vocative arcule arcelor

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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arc m

  1. (obsolete) sow[1]
  2. (obsolete) piglet
  3. (obsolete) lizard
  4. (obsolete) body
  5. (obsolete) dwarf
  6. (obsolete) bear
  7. (obsolete) stag, hind
  8. (obsolete) collection
  9. (obsolete) hero

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arc f

  1. (obsolete) bee, wasp[1]
  2. (obsolete) impost, tax
  3. (obsolete) "Femen." (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 arc in Edward Dwelly (1911) “arc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN; accessed on 7 May 2015.

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From English arc.

Noun

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arc m (plural arcau)

  1. (sciences, mathematics) arc

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “arc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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