bloc
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: block
Noun
bloc (plural blocs)
- A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
- 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 terms
Translations
group of voters or politicians
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group of countries
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Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
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 Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bloc m (plural blocs)
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “bloc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.
Noun
bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)
Declension
Declension of bloc
Derived terms
- bloc fir m (“stocky man”)
- bloc-chlár m (“blockboard”)
- blocadóir m (“block-maker”)
- blocáil (“block”, verb)
- blocán m (“small block; stocky person; blockhead; coal-fish”)
- blocdhéanmhas m (“block structure”)
- 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 | ||
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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. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bloc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
bloc m (plural bloques)
- pad (such as of paper)
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