arc

(music) bow (used to play string instruments)

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


arc

(astronomy) That part of a circle which a heavenly body appears to pass through as it moves above and below the horizon.

(geometry) A continuous part of the circumference of a circle (circular arc) or of another curve.

A band contained within parallel curves, or something of that shape.

(electrics) A flow of current across an insulating medium; especially a hot, luminous discharge between either two electrodes or as lightning.

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.

2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:

(mathematics) A continuous mapping from a real interval (typically [0, 1]) into a space.

(basketball, slang) The three-point line.

For all practical purposes the old carbon arcs, which were the backbone of film lighting, are no longer used.

→ Irish: arc

→ Maltese: ark

→ Welsh: 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

A warring bloodhunter detected it and skillfully arced his sword through its spinal column before it could return to follow through with its attack.

2008, T. R. Elmore, Blood Ties Series, Volume 1, Tainted, Book 1, page 106:

Gatland's side got back to within striking distance when fly-half Jones's clever pass sent centre Jonathan Davies arcing round Shontayne Hape.

2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:

The big wheel in the sky
He arcs o'er miles and miles

2024, Patricia Taxxon (lyrics and music), “Big Wheel”, in Bicycle:

(transitive, intransitive) To move following a curved path.

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.

1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 1 (The Seventh Day):

(transitive) To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc.

(intransitive) To form an electrical arc.

en-verb

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

arcs (present singular third-person)
arcing (participle present)
arcking (participle present)
arced (participle past)
arced (past)
arcked (participle past)
arcked (past)


arc

(geometry) arc, circular arc, circle segment

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


arc

(figuratively) sight, view, aspect, appearance

(slang, often following jó) chap, guy, dude, bloke, fellow

arcok (plural)
arc (nominative singular)
arcok (nominative plural)
arcot (accusative singular)
arcokat (accusative plural)
arcnak (dative singular)
arcoknak (dative plural)
arccal (instrumental singular)
arcokkal (instrumental plural)
arcért (causal-final singular)
arcokért (causal-final plural)
arccá (singular translative)
arcokká (plural translative)
arcig (singular terminative)
arcokig (plural terminative)
arcként (essive-formal singular)
arcokként (essive-formal plural)
arcul (essive-modal singular)
arcban (inessive singular)
arcokban (inessive plural)
arcon (singular superessive)
arcokon (plural superessive)
arcnál (adessive singular)
arcoknál (adessive plural)
arcba (illative singular)
arcokba (illative plural)
arcra (singular sublative)
arcokra (plural sublative)
archoz (allative singular)
arcokhoz (allative plural)
arcból (elative singular)
arcokból (elative plural)
arcról (delative singular)
arcokról (delative plural)
arctól (ablative singular)
arcoktól (ablative plural)
arcé (singular)
arcoké (plural)
arcéi (singular)
arcokéi (plural)
arcom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
arcaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
arcod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
arcaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
arca (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
arcai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
arcunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
arcaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
arcotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
arcaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
arcuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
arcaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

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.


arc

head

arc m (genitive singular airc, nominative plural airc)

airc (genitive singular)
airc (nominative plural)

Inherited from Old Irish orc, arc (“piglet”).


arc

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


arc

Alternative form of earc (“lizard; reptile”)

airc (genitive singular)
airc (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
arc (indefinite singular)
airc (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a airc (indefinite singular)
a arca (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
airc (indefinite singular)
arc (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an t-arc (definite singular)
na hairc (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an airc (definite singular)
na n-arc (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an arc (definite singular)
don arc (definite singular)
leis na hairc (definite plural)
arc
n-arc
harc


arc

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

fro-noun

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

arc oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
ars (oblique plural)
ars (nominative singular)
arc (nominative plural)

French: arc

desctree

→ Middle English: ark, arke
English: arc
→ Irish: arc
→ Maltese: ark
→ Welsh: arc


arc

arcuri (plural)
arc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcul (accusative definite nominative singular)
arcuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
arc (indefinite singular)
arcului (definite singular)
arcuri (indefinite singular)
arcurilor (definite plural)
arcule (singular vocative)
arcurilor (vocative)


arc

arce (plural)
arc (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcul (accusative definite nominative singular)
arce (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
arcele (accusative definite nominative plural)
arc (indefinite singular)
arcului (definite singular)
arce (indefinite singular)
arcelor (definite plural)
arcule (singular vocative)
arcelor (vocative)


arc

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