blanc
Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
blanc
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blanc (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanques)
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
blanc m (plural blancs)
See also[edit]
Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text) | ||||
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blanc | gris | negre | ||
roig, vermell ; carmesí | taronja ; marró | groc ; crema | ||
verd lima | verd | |||
cian ; xarxet | atzur | blau | ||
violat ; indi | magenta ; lila, porpra | rosa |
Further reading[edit]
- “blanc” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Dalmatian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (plural blance, feminine blanca)
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- 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.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blanc (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)
- white color
- Ce lait est blanc. - This milk is white.
- blank, unused
- (figuratively, one's look) blank, without expression
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
blanc m (plural blancs)
- white (color)
- silence while in a dialog.
- 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.
- (informal) white wine.
- Le poisson se mange avec du blanc. - fish is eaten with white wine.
- white person, person with a white complexion.
- white, egg white
- white meat
- correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex
Synonyms[edit]
- (correction fluid) blanco, correcteur liquide, tipex
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Antillean Creole: blan
- Guianese Creole: blan
- Haitian Creole: blan
- Karipúna Creole French: blã
- Louisiana Creole French: blan, blon
- Seychellois Creole: blan
- Tayo: bla
See also[edit]
Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text) | ||||
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blanc | gris | noir | ||
rouge ; cramoisi | orange ; brun | jaune ; crème | ||
vert citron | vert | |||
cyan ; bleu canard | azur | bleu | ||
violet ; indigo | magenta ; pourpre | rose |
Further reading[edit]
- “blanc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
blanc
Interlingua[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blanc (comparative plus blanc, superlative le plus blanc)
- white (having a light colour, reflecting all light)
- white (having a light skin colour, mostly associated with European descent)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French blanc.
Noun[edit]
blanc m (uncountable)
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)
Descendants[edit]
- French: blanc (see there for further descendants)
Occitan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- blan (Mistralian)
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (feminine singular blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blancas)
Old English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blanc
Declension[edit]
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | blanc | blanc | blanc |
Accusative | blancne | blance | blanc |
Genitive | blances | blancre | blances |
Dative | blancum | blancre | blancum |
Instrumental | blance | blancre | blance |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | blance | blanca, -e | blanc |
Accusative | blance | blanca, -e | blanc |
Genitive | blancra | blancra | blancra |
Dative | blancum | blancum | blancum |
Instrumental | blancum | blancum | blancum |
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | blanca | blance | blance |
Accusative | blancan | blancan | blance |
Genitive | blancan | blancan | blancan |
Dative | blancan | blancan | blancan |
Instrumental | blancan | blancan | blancan |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | blancan | blancan | blancan |
Accusative | blancan | blancan | blancan |
Genitive | blancra, blancena | blancra, blancena | blancra, blancena |
Dative | blancum | blancum | blancum |
Instrumental | blancum | blancum | blancum |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blanche)
Declension[edit]
Noun[edit]
blanc m (oblique plural blans, nominative singular blans, nominative plural blanc)
- 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)
- Ses haubers est coverz de sanc:
- circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- 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
Old Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (feminine singular blancha, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanchas)
Descendants[edit]
Walloon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
blanc m (feminine singular blanke, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blankes)
- English terms borrowed from French
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- Catalan terms inherited from Old Occitan
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- Catalan terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Catalan terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan 1-syllable words
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
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- Dalmatian terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Dalmatian terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- French terms inherited from Middle French
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- French terms derived from the PIE root *bʰleyǵ-
- Friulian terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Interlingua terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
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- Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan
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- Occitan terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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- Old Occitan terms inherited from Late Latin
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- Old Occitan terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Walloon terms inherited from Old French
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- wa:Colors