{"id":22887,"date":"2023-05-19T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22887"},"modified":"2023-05-19T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:09:20","slug":"desks-discs-and-discos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22887","title":{"rendered":"Desks, Discs and Discos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What links the words <strong>desk<\/strong>, <strong>dais<\/strong>, <strong>disc<\/strong>, <strong>disco<\/strong>, <strong>dish<\/strong> and <strong>discus<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/52448293264\/in\/album-72157624974257146\/\" title=\"My studio \/ office\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52448293264_9920ba4222_z.jpg\" alt=\"My studio \/ office\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>My desk in my office\/studio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The answer is, they share the same roots: the Latin word <em>discus<\/em> (a discus, quoit, dish-shaped object, disc of a sundial), but arrived in English via different routes [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/discus#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desk<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>deske<\/em> (a reading desk or lecturn), from the Medieval Latin <em>desca<\/em>, from the Latin <em>discus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/desk#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dais<\/strong> (a raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy) comes from the Middle English <em>deis<\/em> (podium, dais, high table), from the Anglo-Norman <em>deis<\/em> (dais, high seat\/table, table of honour), from the Old French <em>deis\/dois<\/em>, from the Latin <em>discum<\/em>, the accusative singular of <em>discus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dais#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disc<\/strong> (a thin, flat, circular plate or similar object; a gramophone record) comes from the French <em>disque<\/em> (disc, discus, record, disk), from the Latin <em>discus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/disc#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disco<\/strong>, is an abbreviation of <strong>discoteque<\/strong>, which was borrowed from the French <strong>discoth\u00e8que<\/strong> (discotheque, nightclub), from <strong>disque<\/strong> (disc, record) and <strong>biblioth\u00e8que<\/strong>, (library). It originally it meant \u201ca library of discs\/records\u201d. <strong>Disque<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>discus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/disco#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dish<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>disch<\/em> (dish, plate, bowl, discus), from the Old English <em>dis\u010b<\/em> (plate, dish), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*disk<\/em> (dish) from the Latin <em>discus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dish#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discus<\/strong> comes directly from the Latin <em>discus<\/em>, from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b4\u03af\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (d\u00edskos &#8211; disc, dish, round mirror), the origins of which are uncertain [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/discus#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disk<\/strong> is used interchangeably with <strong>disc<\/strong>, and means more or less the same things. However, it comes straight from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b4\u03af\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/disk#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What links the words desk, dais, disc, disco, dish and discus? My desk in my office\/studio The answer is, they share the same roots: the Latin word discus (a discus, quoit, dish-shaped object, disc of a sundial), but arrived in English via different routes [source]. Desk comes from the Middle English deske (a reading desk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,85,104,107,111,10,15,26,33,34,202,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-anglo-norman","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-french","category-proto-west-germanic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22891,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22887\/revisions\/22891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}