Discului

Discului is a Romanian grammatical form that functions as the genitive/dative singular of the masculine noun disc, meaning “of the disk” or “to/for the disk” when the noun is in the definite form discul. It is a standard part of Romanian morphology and appears in contexts that refer to a disk or round object, including technical, geometric, or everyday usage.

Etymology and function: The base word is disc, borrowed from Latin discus. In Romanian, the definite singular form is disc-ul (the disk), and the corresponding genitive/dative singular is discului, which marks possession or indirect object relations (for example, “caracteristicile discului” = the disk’s characteristics). The form discului is not a proper noun; it is a standard inflected form used with nouns that denote a disk.

Usage and contexts: Discului occurs in technical writing about storage devices, computer disks, or optical discs, as well as in mathematical or geometric descriptions of a circle or disk. It also appears in general prose whenever the disk’s attributes or relationships are being described. The word can combine with adjectives, qualifiers, and other nouns to express measurements, properties, or ownership of the disk.

Examples:

- Capacitatea discului este de 1 TB. (The disk’s capacity is 1 TB.)

- Culoarea discului poate fi negru sau argintiu. (The disk’s color can be black or silver.)

- Caracteristicile discului au fost actualizate în documentație. (The disk’s characteristics were updated in the documentation.)

Discului, as a grammatical form, is a routine element of Romanian syntax and does not carry independent semantic meaning beyond its relationship to the noun disc.