arc

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

Translingual

Symbol

arc

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

English

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

A geometric arc, upper right.
An electric arc between two nails.

Noun

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.
  2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.
  3. A curve, in general.
  4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.
  5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.
  6. (narratology) A story arc.
    • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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 ) 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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

directed edge — see directed edge

Verb

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:
      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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

Derived terms

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Further reading

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

Derived terms

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Further reading

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

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

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See also

Hungarian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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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Expressions

References

  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

  • 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 Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. piglet
  2. diminutive animal or person
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. (mathematics, geometry) arc
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

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

Declension

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
arc n-arc harc not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

Noun

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow
  2. arch, arc

Derived terms

Old French

Etymology

From Latin arcus.

Noun

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

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

Coordinate terms

Descendants

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

Old High German

Pronunciation

Adjective

arc

  1. Alternative form of arg

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

arc n (plural arcuri)

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

Declension

Declension of arc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) arc arcul (niște) arcuri arcurile
genitive/dative (unui) arc arcului (unor) arcuri arcurilor
vocative arcule arcurilor

Noun

arc n (plural arce)

  1. (geometry) arc

Declension

Declension of arc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) arc arcul (niște) arce arcele
genitive/dative (unui) arc arcului (unor) arce arcelor
vocative arcule arcelor

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

arc m

  1. (obsolete) sow
  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

Noun

arc f

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

References

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