blanc

French blanc (“white”)

blanc

1. A white cosmetic.
2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.

From Old Occitan blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Occitan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈblaŋk/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈblaŋ/

blanc (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanques)

1. white

• blancor
• blanquejar
• carta blanca

blanc m (plural blancs)

1. white
2. target (for shooting practice)
3. blank (empty space)

• “blanc” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• blank

From Late Latin *blancus (compare Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

blanc m (plural blance, feminine blanca)

1. white

• jualb

• 2000, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

From Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch "bright, white" (German blank "polished, naked"), Old Norse blankr "white" (Danish blank "bright, shiny"), Dutch blank "white, shining". More at blink, blind.

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃/

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blanc (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white color

   Ce lait est blanc. - This milk is white.

2. blank, unused
3. (figuratively, one's look) blank, without expression

• blanc comme neige
• blanc comme un linge
• blancheur

blanc m (plural blancs)

1. white (color)
2. silence while in a dialog.
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form.

   Inscrivez votre nom dans le blanc en bas de la page. - Write your name in the blank at the bottom of the page.

4. (informal) white wine.

   Le poisson se mange avec du blanc. - fish is eaten with white wine.

5. white person, person with a white complexion.
6. white, egg white
7. white meat
8. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

• (correction fluid) blanco, correcteur liquide, tipex

• blanc de blancs
• blanc de noirs

• Antillean Creole: blan
• Guianese Creole: blan
• Haitian Creole: blan
• Karipúna Creole French: blã
• Louisiana Creole French: blan, blon
• Seychellois Creole: blan
• Tayo: bla

• “blanc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Ladin blanch, Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

blanc

1. white

• IPA^(key): /blaŋk/

blanc (comparative plus blanc, superlative le plus blanc)

1. white (having a light colour, reflecting all light)
2. white (having a light skin colour, mostly associated with European descent)

• blanchir

• blanco

From Old French blanc.

blanc m (uncountable)

1. white

blanc m (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white

• French: blanc (see there for further descendants)

• blan (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Catalan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

blanc m (feminine singular blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

• blonc

From Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright", "shining", "blinding", "white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to, Old High German blanch, planch (“bright", "white”), hence German blank (“blank", "white”), Old Norse blankr (“white”), hence Danish and Swedish blank ("shiny", asf), Dutch blank (“white", "shining”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɑnk/, [ˈblɑŋk]

blanc

1. White
2. greyish-white, pale, pallid

• blonca, blanca
• blencan

• Middle English: blanke, blonke
  • Scots: blonk

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch "bright, white" (German blank (“blank, white”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blind.

• IPA^(key): /blãŋk/

blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blanche)

1. white

blanc m (oblique plural blans, nominative singular blans, nominative plural blanc)

1. white (color)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Ses haubers est coverz de sanc:
     De roge i a plus que de blanc.

     His chainmail is covered in blood

     There's more red than white (referring to his white chainmail)

• blanchoier

• Burgundian: blian
• Champaignat: bian
• Gallo: blânc
• Lorrain: bianc
• Middle English: blank, blonc
  • English: blank
• Middle French: blanc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: bllànc, blianc
• Picard: blanc
• Walloon: blan, blanc

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

blanc m (feminine singular blancha, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanchas)

1. white

• Catalan: blanc
• Occitan: blanc

From Old French blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

blanc m (feminine singular blanke, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blankes)

1. white