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A discotheque is a club where people go at night to dance to records — a DJ, not a live band. English took the word from French. In French it first meant a library of records, and then it came to mean the dance place itself. The long word had its moment in the 1960s and 1970s. Though actually, almost nobody says discotheque now in ordinary talk. People say disco for the club and for that style of music, or they just say club or nightclub. You still see the full word on old signs, in films set in that time, and when someone wants it to sound a little European or a little fancy. It names the place. The music that played there got the short name disco too.
迪斯可舞廳（台灣寫「迪斯可」，大陸較常寫「迪斯科」）
組成Borrowed from French discothèque, which meant a record library and then a dance club. French disque is a record; -thèque is a place that keeps a collection (as in bibliothèque, a library of books).
同家族的字
- discothe short everyday form of the same word (the club, and later the music)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
discothequenoun/ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/
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datedA nightclub where dancing takes place.
- By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。