Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. · A bench, a settle, a pew. · An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. · The canopy over an altar, etc.
From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiondeisenm
- Derivation mentiondeisfro
- Cognate mentiondaisfr
- Derivation mentiondiscumla
- Derivation mentionδίσκοςgrc
- Cognate mentiondescoit
- Cognate mentiondesoc
- Doublet mentiondesken
- Doublet mentiondiscen
- Doublet mentiondiscusen
- Doublet mentiondishen
- Doublet mentiondisken
- Doublet mentiondiskosen
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