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1656. From Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, dish, disk, and diskos.

• (UK, US, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪs.kəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪskəs

discus (plural discuses)

1. A round plate-like object that is thrown for sport.
   • August 18 2004, Frank Fitzpatrick, “The amazing story of the first discus medal winner”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

     He [Robert Garrett] won even though he hadn't ever touched a real discus until just before the event was held.

   • August 23 2008, John Branch, “Estonia's Kanter Celebrates Gold Medal in the Discus His Way”, in The New York Times‎:

     Kanter had agreed to demonstrate his throwing skill on Friday, but rather than bringing his own discuses—he usually travels with about five of them, […]

2. (uncountable, athletics) The athletics event of discus throw.
   • 1929 July 4, Harry L. Borba, “The Superman of Track”, in The Vernon Daily Record, volume 4, number 209, Vernon, Texas, page 6:

     For two years Templeton has given individual attention to Krenz. The young man has reciprocated by giving at least two hours each day to practice in the shot and discus.

   • 2008 September 8, “Weir lays down marker in Beijing”, in BBC‎:

     And Chris Martin took a silver medal in the discus on the opening day in the Bird's Nest, […]

3. (plural: discus) A discus fish (genus Symphysodon)
   • 2008, Carol Roberts, “History of Discus”, in North American Discus Association‎, archived from the original on 8 December 2008:

     The main body of the Amazon River is too fast, too deep, and too silt laden for discus.

4. (rare, dated) A chakram.
   • 1893, K. M. Ganguli, The Mahabharata, translation of original by Krishna-Swaipayana Vyasa, Adi Parva, Section XIX:

     And Narayana instantly cut off with his discus the well-adorned head of the Danava who was drinking the Amrita without permission.

   • 1899, Thomas William Rhys Davids, transl., Sàmañña-Phàla Sutta, translation of original by Digha Nikaya:

     If with a discus with an edge sharp as a razor he should make all the living creatures on the earth one heap, one mass, of flesh, […]

• Although an alternative Latinate plural disci is often cited, it is hardly ever used in practice.

• (round plate): quoit

• discus fish
• discus throw
• discus thrower

Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos). First attested in the eighteenth century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskʏs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: dis‧cus
• Rhymes: -ɪskʏs

discus m (plural discussen, diminutive discusje n)

1. discus

   Synonym: werpschijf

• discuswerpen

• dis
• disc
• diskette

• → Indonesian: diskus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.kus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdis.kus/,

discus m (genitive discī); second declension

1. a discus, quoit
2. a dish shaped like a discus
3. disc of a sundial
4. a plate
5. (Medieval Latin) table, a piece of furniture with a flat surface to eat from or write upon

Second-declension noun.

• “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “discus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• discus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• discus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “discus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “discus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin