desk

discum (Latin)

desco (Old Italian)

desca (Malayalam)

desque (Middle English)

desk (English)

To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure. A department of a newspaper tasked with covering a particular geographical region or aspect of the news.. A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (especially in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for the clerical [...]