disque

Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, which was inherited from Old French deis, dois.

• IPA^(key): /disk/

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disque m (plural disques)

1. disc (any flat or nearly flat circular object)
   1. (mathematics) disc
   2. (athletics) discus
   3. (music) disk; record
   4. (computing) disk

      disque dur ― hard disk

   5. (anatomy) disc
   6. (mechanics) disk
   7. (astronomy) disk

• → English: disc
• → Norman: disque
• → Persian: دیسک (disk)
• → Romanian: disc
• → Turkish: disk

• “disque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Galician-Portuguese diz que, form diz (“he/she says”) + que (“that”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiz̺kɪ/

disque

1. so they say; apparently, reportedly, allegedly

   Synonym: seica

   —Disque el manda na súa casa: seica ten can.

   —He rules in his own home, so they say: probably he has a dog.

   —Aprobaches? —Disque si. Veremos.

   —Did you passed (the exam)? —So they say. Let's wait and see.

   • 1777, anonymous author, Romance da urca de Santo Antón:

     "Aferren la mayor", dice, "pues que estamos en pelijro": Aqui entr’-á vocería, aquí ó tocar dos pítos, aquí ô botàr maldiciós, aquí ós votos à Cristo; porque nestas ocasiôs disque ó x̃surar nè delito

     "Furl the mainsail", he says, "since we are in danger": Here begins the outcry, here the whistles sound, here to swear damns, here vows to Christ; because in these occasions swearing is no crime, so they say

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “diz que”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “disque”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “disque”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “disque”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “disque”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

disque m (plural disques)

1. (computing) drive; disk

• disque dû (“hard disk”)
• disque enr'gistrabl'ye (“CD-R”)
• disque èrenr'gistrabl'ye (“CD-RW”)

disque

1. inflection of discar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

disque m (plural disques)

1. (Brazil) telephone hotline

disque

1. inflection of discar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative