bloc
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bloc (plural blocs)
- A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- But a huge bloc of non-Hispanic white residents without bachelor’s degrees — 72 percent of the population age 25 or older — has turned the 7th District into Republican turf.
- 2020: "Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020" by Geoffrey Skelley and Nathaniel Rakich, FiveThirtyEight
- 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
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
group of voters or politicians
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group of countries
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bloc m (plural blocs)
Further readingEdit
- “bloc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bloc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “bloc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bloc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bloc m (plural blocs)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Asturian: bloque
- → Bulgarian: блок (blok)
- → Czech: bloc
- → English: bloc
- → Galician: bloque
- → Italian: bloc
- → Macedonian: блок (blok)
- → Norwegian: block
- → Persian: بلوک (blok)
- → Polish: blok
- → Portuguese: bloco
- → Romanian: bloc
- → Russian: блок (blok)
- → Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
- → Spanish: bloc, bloque
- → Turkish: blok
Further readingEdit
- “bloc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.
NounEdit
bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bloc
Derived termsEdit
- 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”)
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bloc | bhloc | mbloc |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- "bloc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- “bloc”, in Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors, eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, 2019
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bloc m (plural blocs)
- pad (such as of paper)