bloc

See also: Bloc

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ǵ-, from *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old High German bloh, bloc (German Block, “block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (Norwegian bolk, “divider, partition”). More at balk.

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /blɑk/
    • Audio (US)(file)
  • (UK) IPA(key): /blɒk/
  • Homophone: block

Noun

bloc (plural blocs)

  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
    The ECB is considering three main options ... but two of them could hurt confidence in the bloc's most indebted states, ... (Reuters)
    Climate change a security risk for EU, say bloc's foreign policy chiefs (EUobserver)
    military bloc

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Catalan

Noun

bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. block
  2. bloc

French

Etymology

From Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ǵ-, from *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old High German bloh, bloc (German Block, “block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse bǫlkr (Norwegian bolk, “divider, partition”). More at balk.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /blɔk/
  • audio(file)

Noun

bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. a block (e.g., of wood)
  2. a bloc, an alliance
  3. a pad of paper
  4. (computing) block (of memory, of code)

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.

Noun

bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)

  1. block

Declension
Declension of bloc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bloc bloic
Vocative a bhloic a bhloca
Genitive bloic bloc
Dative bloc bloic

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bloc na bloic
Genitive an bhloic na mbloc
Dative leis an mbloc

don bhloc

 leis na bloic

Derived terms
  • blocadóir m (“block-maker”)
  • blocáil (“block”, verb)
  • blocán m (“small block; stocky person; blockhead; coal-fish”)
  • bloc-chlár m (“blockboard”)
  • blocdhéanmhas m (“block structure”)
  • bloc fir m (“stocky man”)
  • blocléaráid f (“block diagram”)
  • bloclitir f (“block letter”)
  • blocphriontáil f (“(act of) blockprinting”)
  • craosbhloc m (“breech-block”)
  • cróbhloc m (“deadeye”)
  • mítéarbhloc m (“mitre-block”)
  • próisbhloc m (“process-block”)
  • sclóinbhloc m (“swivel block”)
  • tacabhloc m (“pillow-block”)
  • V-bhloc m (“V-block”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bloc bhloc mbloc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "bloc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “bloc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bloc.

Noun

bloc m (plural bloques)

  1. pad (such as of paper)
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