Bloch

See also: bloch and Błoch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bloch.

Proper noun

Bloch

1. A surname from German.
   • 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.

Derived terms

• Bloch electron
• Bloch function
• Bloch norm
• Bloch oscillation
• Bloch space
• Bloch spectrum
• Bloch sphere
• Bloch state
• Bloch's theorem
• Bloch wall
• Bloch wave

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɔx/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Bloch m (strong, genitive Bloches or Blochs, plural Bloche or Blöcher)

1. log (trunk of a felled tree, cleared of branches)

Usage notes

The plural form Blöcher is archaic.

Declension

Declension of Bloch [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bloch	die	Bloche, Blöcher
genitive	eines	des	Bloches, Blochs	der	Bloche, Blöcher
dative	einem	dem	Bloch, Bloche1	den	Blochen, Blöchern
accusative	einen	den	Bloch	die	Bloche, Blöcher

¹Now rare, see notes.

Proper noun

Bloch m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Blochs or (with an article) Bloch, feminine genitive Bloch, plural Blochs)

1. a surname

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɔx/
• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Syllabification: Bloch
• Homophone: bloch

Proper noun

Bloch m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Bloch

	singular	plural
nominative	Bloch	Blochowie
genitive	Blocha	Blochów
dative	Blochowi	Blochom
accusative	Blocha	Blochów
instrumental	Blochem	Blochami
locative	Blochu	Blochach
vocative	Blochu	Blochowie

Proper noun

Bloch f (indeclinable, traditional married form Blochowa, traditional unmarried form Blochówna)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• “Bloch”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030