Other forms: discs
A disc is a thin flat round object. A brake disc, a slipped disc, a compact disc.
It is a doublet of dish, desk, discus and dais, all from the same Greek word, which is a remarkable spread. Americans spell it disk, and Britain uses disc for objects and disk for computer storage.
1noundiscA thin flat round object.
“The dog leapt into the air and caught the plastic disc in its mouth.”
disc is a shape.
Also accepted in games: disk
Latin discus comes from Greek diskos, a quoit or platter; dish, desk and dais are doublets.
French
disque
English, today
disc
Borrowed from French disque. From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (“disk, quoit, platter”). a doublet of dais and desk and discus and dish and disk and diskos.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA