floppy disk

See also: floppydisk

English

A 3½-inch floppy disk

Alternative forms

• floppy disc

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

floppy disk (plural floppy disks)

1. (computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
   • 1984, Venture (volume 6, part 1, page 142)

     A hacker starts with nothing but a dream and a floppy disk and presently finds himself in a business that's doubled and trebled.

   • 1994, Alexander John Anderson, Foundations of Computer Technology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:

     The floppy disk itself is a magnetically coated flexible plastic disk which is mounted in a protective envelope and can be used as a mass data storage medium.

Synonyms

• disk / diskette
• floppy
• floppy diskette

Derived terms

• floptical disk

Related terms

• flippy disk / flippy diskette
• floppy disk drive

Descendants

• → Italian: floppy disk
• → Japanese: フロッピーディスク (furoppī disuku)
• → Korean: 플로피 디스크 (peullopi diseukeu)
• → Welsh: disg hyblyg (calque)

Translations

flexible disk used for storing digital data

• Arabic: قُرْص مَرِن m (qurṣ marin)
• Azerbaijani: disket
• Basque: diskete
• Belarusian: дыске́та f (dyskjéta)
• Bulgarian: диске́та f (diskéta)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: disquet (ca) m, disc flexible m
• Cherokee: ᏩᏂᎨ ᎠᏠᏗ (wanige atlodi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 磁碟 (ci⁴ dip^6-2)

  Mandarin: 軟盤 / 软盘 (zh) (ruǎnpán), 磁盤 / 磁盘 (zh) (cípán), 磁碟 (zh) (cídié), 軟碟 / 软碟 (zh) (ruǎndié)

• Czech: disketa (cs) f
• Danish: diskette c
• Dutch: diskette (nl) f, floppydisk (nl) m
• Esperanto: disketo
• Faroese: diskil m
• Finnish: levyke (fi), disketti (fi), lerppu (fi) (slang)
• French: disquette (fr) f
• Georgian: დისკეტა (disḳeṭa)
• German: Diskette (de) f, Floppy (de) f, Floppy Disk (de) f
• Greek: δισκέτα (el) f (diskéta)
• Hawaiian: pā malule
• Hindi: डिस्केट (ḍiskeṭ)
• Hungarian: hajlékonylemez (hu), flopilemez, flopi (hu)
• Icelandic: disketta f, disklingur (is) m
• Indonesian: disket (id)
• Italian: floppy disk (it) m, floppy (it) m, dischetto (it) m, disco flessibile m, disco floscio m
• Japanese: フロッピーディスク (ja) (furoppī disuku), ディスケット (ja) (disuketto)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 플로피 디스크 (peullopi diseukeu), 디스켓 (diseuket)
• Macedonian: диске́та (mk) f (diskéta)
• Malay: cakera liut
• Māori: kōpae pīngore
• Marathi: फ्लॉपी f (phlŏpī), फ्लॉपी डिस्क (phlŏpī ḍiska)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: distchette f
• Northern Sotho: tiske ya flopi
• Persian: فلاپی (felâpi), دیسکت (fa) (disket)
• Polish: dyskietka (pl) f, dysk elastyczny (pl) m inan, dysk miękki (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: disquete (pt) m or f, disco flexível
• Romanian: dischetă (ro) f
• Russian: диске́та (ru) f (diskéta), ги́бкий диск m (gíbkij disk)
• Serbo-Croatian: disketa (sh) f
• Slovak: disketa (sk) f
• Spanish: disquete (es) m, disco flexible m
• Swedish: diskett (sv) c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: disket (tr)
• Turkmen: disket, çeýe disk
• Ukrainian: диске́та f (dyskéta), гнучки́й диск m (hnučkýj dysk)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: disg hyblyg m
• Yiddish: דיסקעט f (disket)

See also

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Further reading

• floppy disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:floppy disk on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English floppy disk.

Noun

floppy disk m (invariable)

1. floppy disk

Further reading

• “floppy disk”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026