Disney
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French de (“of, from”) + Isigny (a place in Calvados). The place name is from the Germanic personal name *Iso, combined with the Gaulish suffix -iacon, Latinized as -iniacu(m). In modern use, it is also derived from the name of Walt Disney, whose surname has the aforementioned origin.
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Proper noun edit
Disney
- A surname from Old French.
- The Walt Disney Company, named after Walt Disney.
- Have you seen Disney's latest film?
- (informal) Any of the theme parks and vacation resorts operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
- We went to Disney with the kids this summer.
- 1990, Bill Berkowitz with Bill Sample (interviewee), Local Heroes, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 261:
- And they included children down the seashore, they included going to the mountains; our first Disney child was not until 1978, no, ’77. […] I mean, when you say to somebody, “I’m going to give you a trip to Disney,” or “I’m going to buy you a Cabbage Patch doll,” and we’re doing this for you for absolutely nothing, that’s a reward in itself.
- 2008, Doug Stumpf, Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 155:
- If they found any phone number from the U.S., anything, they’d deport us right away because we came here on excursion with a whole bunch of people that was going to visit Disney. That’s what everybody usually do: They say, We going to visit Disney, and we going to stay there for a week, and then we going to go back, but they end up staying.
- 2008, Flay Scott, The Inheritance, page 3:
- Angela asked if we could treat ourselves to a few days at Disney. […] The week included a couple of days in Disney, Dad’s 70th birthday and then the long trip home.
- 2009, Cleo Stinyard III, Sex, Love, & Consequences, →ISBN, page 213:
- I had decided to take them, my niece, and three nephews to Disney in Orlando, FL. I was going to try and make history. I was going to make an attempt at escorting more than four Dredd kids to Disney at once and live to tell about it.
- A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States, named after Wesley E. Disney.
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Translations edit
surname
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Walt Disney Company
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Disney theme park
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Hungarian edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Disney
Declension edit
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Disney | Disney-k |
| accusative | Disney-t | Disney-ket |
| dative | Disney-nek | Disney-knek |
| instrumental | Disney-vel | Disney-kkel |
| causal-final | Disney-ért | Disney-kért |
| translative | Disney-vé | Disney-kké |
| terminative | Disney-ig | Disney-kig |
| essive-formal | Disney-ként | Disney-kként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | Disney-ben | Disney-kben |
| superessive | Disney-n | Disney-ken |
| adessive | Disney-nél | Disney-knél |
| illative | Disney-be | Disney-kbe |
| sublative | Disney-re | Disney-kre |
| allative | Disney-hez | Disney-khez |
| elative | Disney-ből | Disney-kből |
| delative | Disney-ről | Disney-kről |
| ablative | Disney-től | Disney-ktől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
Disney-é | Disney-ké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
Disney-éi | Disney-kéi |
| Possessive forms of Disney | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | Disney-m | Disney-jeim |
| 2nd person sing. | Disney-d | Disney-jeid |
| 3rd person sing. | Disney-je | Disney-jei |
| 1st person plural | Disney-nk | Disney-jeink |
| 2nd person plural | Disney-tek | Disney-jeitek |
| 3rd person plural | Disney-jük | Disney-jeik |
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.
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Proper noun edit
Disney f
- Disney (Walt Disney Company)
- un film della Disney
- a Disney movie
References edit
- ^ Disney, Walt in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “All just borrowed from English?”)
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Adjective edit
Disney (invariable)
Noun edit
Disney f (plural Disneys)
- (Brazil, slang, neologism) the state of forgetting something; blackout; oblivion
- Synonyms: esquecimento, branco
Proper noun edit
Disney f
- Disney (Walt Disney Company)
- um filme da Disney
- a Disney movie
- any of the Walt Disney theme parks
- Estou indo para a Disney nas férias.
- I'm going to Disney on vacation.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English Disney.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈdisnei/ [ˈd̪iz.nei̯]
- Rhymes: -isnei
- IPA(key): /ˈdisni/ [ˈd̪iz.ni]
- Rhymes: -isni
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪsni/ [ˈd̪ɪz.ni]
- Rhymes: -i
- Syllabification: Dis‧ney
Noun edit
Disney f (plural Disneyes)
- Disney (Walt Disney Company)