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bloc

See also: Bloc and błoć

English

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Etymology

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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.

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Examples (group of countries)

bloc (plural blocs)

  1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
    • 2020 May 11, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight‎[1], archived from the original on 3 June 2020:
      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.
    • 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎[2], archived from the original on 27 July 2025:
      How that impacts Asia’s most stable democracy will become clearer only in the weeks ahead. Sunday’s vote was a mid-term election for the less powerful, upper house of the legislature. And the Sanseito party, while surging, is still only the fourth-largest bloc in that chamber.
  2. A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance.
    military bloc
    trading bloc
    • 2023 August 17, “The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions”, in The Economist‎[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 August 2023:
      Like the iPod and MySpace, the BRICS bloc is a product of the benign optimism of the 2000s.

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French bloc.

Noun

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. block
  2. pad, notebook
  3. bloc
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English blog.

Noun

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bloc m (plural blocs)

  1. obsolete spelling of blog
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  • Recommend spelling (by TERMCAT) until 2013, when blog was accepted by the IEC.

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French

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Etymology

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    Inherited 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”).

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    Noun

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    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

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.

    Noun

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    bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)

    1. block

    Declension

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    Declension of bloc (first declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative bloc bloic
    vocative a bhloic a bhloca
    genitive bloic bloc
    dative bloc bloic
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an bloc na bloic
    genitive an bhloic na mbloc
    dative leis an mbloc
    don bhloc     		leis na bloic

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    Mutation

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    Mutated forms of bloc
    radical lenition eclipsis
    bloc bhloc mbloc

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French bloc, German Blockhaus.

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    bloc n (plural blocuri)

    1. block (a big chunk of solid matter)
      Synonym: bucată
      bloc de gheață ― block of ice
    2. a heap or an ensemble of objects of the same type that form a unity
      bloc de desen ― drawing block
    3. apartment building
      Synonym: (rare) blochaus
    4. (politics) bloc
      Synonym: alianță

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative bloc blocul blocuri blocurile
    genitive-dative bloc blocului blocuri blocurilor
    vocative blocule blocurilor

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    Spanish

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    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Frankishder.
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-der.
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥ǵʰ-no-
    Proto-Germanic *bulkną
    Proto-Germanic *blukną
    Proto-Germanic *blukką
    Proto-West Germanic *blokkder.
    Old Dutch *blokder.
    Middle Dutch blokder.
    Old French bloc
    Middle French bloc
    French blocbor.
    Spanish bloc

      Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈblok/ [ˈblok]
      • Rhymes: -ok
      • Syllabification: bloc

      Noun

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      bloc m (plural blocs)

      1. block of paper
        Alternative form: block
        Synonym: pad
      2. engine block
        Alternative form: bloque

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      Welsh

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      Etymology

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      Borrowed from English block. Doublet of plocyn.

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      bloc m (plural blociau, diminutive blocyn)

      1. block

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      Mutation

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      Mutated forms of bloc
      radical soft nasal aspirate
      bloc floc mloc unchanged

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      Further reading

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      • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “block”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[4], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
      • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “bloc”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
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