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Abbreviation of English Aramaic.

arc

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

A geometric arc, upper right.

An electric arc between two nails.

Middle English ark

English arc

Inherited 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.

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. [from 14th c.]
  2. (geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve. [from 16th c.]
    • 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados:
      The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure.
  3. A curve, in general. [from 17th c.]
    an arc of pupils around their teacher.
  4. A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape. [from 17th c.]
  5. (electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge either between two electrodes or as lightning. [from 19th c.]
  6. (narratology) Ellipsis of story arc. [from 20th c.]
    • 2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic‎[1], archived from the original on 29 April 2015:
      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.
    1. (by extension, Internet slang) A period or phase in a person's life.
      I'm hitting the gym three times a week or more at the moment. I'm in my gym bro arc.
      I miss my drawing arc. I feel like I was much more creative back then.
  7. (mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.
  8. (graph theory) A directed edge.
  9. (basketball, slang) The three-point line.
  10. (film) An arclight.

geometry: part of a curve

curve

electric discharge

arc (third-person singular simple present arcs, present participle arcing or (rare) arcking, simple past and past participle arced or (rare) arcked)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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 Sport‎[2], archived from the original on 26 November 2020:
      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, “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.

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

arc m (plural arcs)

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

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

arc m (plural arcs)

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

Inherited from Latin arcus.

arc m (plural arcs)

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

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.[1][2] Compare words in other languages which are built the same way like Ossetian цӕсгом (cæsgom, “face”, literally “eye-mouth”).

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
  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

From Old Irish orc (“piglet”).

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. piglet
  2. diminutive animal or person

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

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

  1. (mathematics, geometry) arc

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

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

Mutated forms of arc

radical eclipsis with _h_-prothesis with _t_-prothesis
arc n-arc harc not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Inherited from Latin arcus.

arc m (plural arcs)

  1. bow
  2. arch, arc

Inherited from Latin arcus.

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

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

arc

  1. alternative form of arg

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

arc n (plural arcuri)

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

arc n (plural arce)

  1. (geometry) arc

From Old Irish orc (“piglet”).

arc m (obsolete)

  1. sow[1]
  2. piglet

From Middle Irish erc (“speckled animal”).

arc m (obsolete)

  1. lizard
  2. stag, hind

arc f

  1. bee, wasp[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

arc m (obsolete)

  1. body
  2. dwarf
  3. bear
  4. collection
  5. hero

arc f

  1. impost, tax

  2. ↑ 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.

From English arc.

arc m (plural arcau)

  1. (sciences, mathematics) arc