disco

See also: Disco and discó

English

Etymology 1

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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.”

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

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

Translations

discotheque — see also night club

• Afrikaans: diskoteek
• Albanian: diskotekë (sq) f
• Arabic: دِيسْكُو m (dīskū)
• Armenian: դիսկոտեկ (hy) (diskotek), դիսկո (disko)
• Azerbaijani: diskoteka
• Belarusian: дыскатэ́ка f (dyskatéka)
• Bengali: ডিস্কো (ḍiskō)
• Bulgarian: дискоте́ка f (diskotéka)
• Burmese: ဒစ္စကို (dacca.kui)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 的士高 (dik¹ si⁶ gou¹)

  Mandarin: 迪斯科 (zh) (dísīkē), 迪廳 / 迪厅 (zh) (dítīng), 迪吧 (díbā), 迪斯科舞廳 / 迪斯科舞厅 (dísīkē wǔtīng), 迪斯科廳 / 迪斯科厅 (zh) (dísīkētīng)

  Wu: 迪科 (⁸diq-ku)

• Czech: diskotéka (cs) f
• Danish: diskotek n
• Dutch: discotheek (nl) f, disco (nl) m
• Esperanto: diskoteko
• Estonian: diskoteek
• Finnish: disko (fi)
• French: discothèque (fr) f, boîte de nuit (fr) f
• Georgian: დისკოთეკა (disḳoteḳa)
• German: Diskothek (de) f, Disco (de) f
• Greek: ντίσκο (el) n (ntísko), ντισκοτέκ (el) f (ntiskoték), δισκοθήκη (el) f (diskothíki)
• Hebrew: דִּיסְקוֹטֶק (he) m (diskoték)
• Hindi: डिस्को m (ḍisko)
• Hungarian: diszkó (hu)
• Icelandic: diskó (is) n, diskótek (is) n
• Irish: dioscó m
• Italian: discoteca (it) f
• Japanese: ディスコ (ja) (disuko)
• Kazakh: дискотека (diskoteka)
• Khmer: ឌីស្កូ (diiskou)
• Korean: 디스코 (ko) (diseuko)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: dîsko (ku), dîskotek (ku)

• Kyrgyz: дискотека (diskoteka)
• Latin: discothēca f
• Latvian: diskotēka f
• Lithuanian: diskoteka f
• Macedonian: дискоте́ка f (diskotéka), диско n (disko)
• Marathi: डिस्को (ḍisko)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: дискотек (diskotek)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diskotek n

  Nynorsk: diskotek n

• Persian: دیسکوتک (fa) (diskotek), دیسکو (diskô)
• Polish: dyskoteka (pl) f
• Portuguese: discoteca (pt) f
• Romanian: discotecă (ro) f
• Russian: дискоте́ка (ru) f (diskotéka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ди̏ско m, дискоте́ка f

  Roman: dȉsko (sh) m, diskotéka (sh) f

• Slovak: diskotéka (sk) f
• Slovene: disko m
• Spanish: discoteca (es) f
• Swedish: disko (sv) n, diskotek (sv) n
• Tajik: дискотека (diskoteka)
• Thai: ดิสโก (dís-gôo), ดิสโก้เทค
• Turkish: disko (tr), diskotek (tr)
• Turkmen: diskoteka
• Ukrainian: дискоте́ка f (dyskotéka)
• Urdu: ڈسکو (ur) m (ḍisko)
• Uzbek: diskoteka (uz)
• Vietnamese: vũ trường (vi)
• Yiddish: דיסקאָטעק f (diskotek)

type of music

• Afrikaans: diskomusiek
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪斯科 (zh) (dísīkē), 迪斯科音樂 / 迪斯科音乐 (dísīkē yīnyuè)

• Danish: disko c, diskomusik c
• Esperanto: diskoo
• Finnish: disko (fi), diskomusa
• Georgian: დისკო (disḳo), დისკო-მუსიკა (disḳo-musiḳa)
• German: Discomusik f
• Greek: ντίσκο (el) n (ntísko)
• Hebrew: דִּיסְקוֹ (he) m (disko)
• Hungarian: disco (hu)
• Icelandic: diskó (is) n
• Maori: puoro pekerangi
• Marathi: डिस्को n (ḍisko)
• Polish: disco (pl) n
• Portuguese: disco (pt) m
• Russian: ди́ско (ru) n (dísko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ди̏ско m

  Roman: dȉsko (sh) m, disco (sh) m

• Spanish: disco (es) f
• Swedish: disko (sv) c, diskomusik (sv) c

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^[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.

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.

Anagrams

• Dosci, sodic

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

disco f (plural discos)

1. Clipping of discoteca.

Derived terms

• música disco

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

• discobal
• discodip
• discolamp
• discomuziek
• discozwemmen

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

disco

1. Alternative form of disko

Declension

Inflection of disco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
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.

Possessive forms of disco (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative disconi disconi accusative nom. disconi disconi gen. disconi genitive disconi discojeni partitive discoani discojani inessive discossani discoissani elative discostani discoistani illative discooni discoihini adessive discollani discoillani ablative discoltani discoiltani allative discolleni discoilleni essive disconani discoinani translative discokseni discoikseni abessive discottani discoittani instructive — — comitative — discoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative discosi discosi accusative nom. discosi discosi gen. discosi genitive discosi discojesi partitive discoasi discojasi inessive discossasi discoissasi elative discostasi discoistasi illative discoosi discoihisi adessive discollasi discoillasi ablative discoltasi discoiltasi allative discollesi discoillesi essive disconasi discoinasi translative discoksesi discoiksesi abessive discottasi discoittasi instructive — — comitative — discoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative discomme discomme accusative nom. discomme discomme gen. discomme genitive discomme discojemme partitive discoamme discojamme inessive discossamme discoissamme elative discostamme discoistamme illative discoomme discoihimme adessive discollamme discoillamme ablative discoltamme discoiltamme allative discollemme discoillemme essive disconamme discoinamme translative discoksemme discoiksemme abessive discottamme discoittamme instructive — — comitative — discoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative disconne disconne accusative nom. disconne disconne gen. disconne genitive disconne discojenne partitive discoanne discojanne inessive discossanne discoissanne elative discostanne discoistanne illative discoonne discoihinne adessive discollanne discoillanne ablative discoltanne discoiltanne allative discollenne discoillenne essive disconanne discoinanne translative discoksenne discoiksenne abessive discottanne discoittanne instructive — — comitative — discoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative disconsa disconsa accusative nom. disconsa disconsa gen. disconsa genitive disconsa discojensa partitive discoaan discoansa discojaan discojansa inessive discossaan discossansa discoissaan discoissansa elative discostaan discostansa discoistaan discoistansa illative discoonsa discoihinsa adessive discollaan discollansa discoillaan discoillansa ablative discoltaan discoltansa discoiltaan discoiltansa allative discolleen discollensa discoilleen discoillensa essive disconaan disconansa discoinaan discoinansa translative discokseen discoksensa discoikseen discoiksensa abessive discottaan discottansa discoittaan discoittansa instructive — — comitative — discoineen discoinensa

French

Noun

disco m or f (plural discos)

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

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

disco m (plural dischi)

1. disc, disk
2. (anatomy) disc

   Synonym: disco intervertebrale

3. (athletics) discus

Related terms

• discale
• dischetto
• disco fisso
• disco orario
• disco rigido
• disco volante
• discobolo
• discografia
• discoide
• discolibro
• discoteca

 

Anagrams

• scodi, sdico

Latin

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

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)

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

Derived terms

• dēdiscō
• ēdiscō

Descendants

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

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 (2003-2024), 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
    

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English disco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis.kɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iskɔ
• Syllabification: dis‧co

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒis.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒis.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒiʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒis.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdiʃ.ku/

• 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

• toca-discos

Related terms

• disquete

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

invariable		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	disco		disco		disco	disco
	definite	—		—		—	—
genitive- dative	indefinite	disco		disco		disco	disco
	definite	—		—		—	—

Noun

disco m (uncountable)

1. disco (music genre)

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	disco	discoul
genitive-dative	disco	discoului
vocative	discoule

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

Derived terms

• disco compacto
• disco de embrague
• disco de freno
• disco de señales
• disco duro
• disco flexible
• disco intervertebral
• disco rayado
• disquería
• freno de disco
• grada de discos
• hernia de disco
• lector de discos
• pez disco
• pinchadiscos
• portadiscos
• tocadiscos
• videodisco

 

Descendants

• → Basque: disko

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

disco

1. first-person singular present indicative of discar

Related terms

• discar

 

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• disko

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

Declension of disco

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	disco	discos
	definite	discot	discots
plural	indefinite	discon	discons
	definite	discona	disconas

Declension of disco 2

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	disco	discos
	definite	discon	discons
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• diskotek

References

• disco in Svensk ordbok (SO)