bloc
French
noun
Definitions
- a block e.g., of wood
- a bloc, an alliance
- a pad of paper
- (computing) block of memory, of code
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French bloc (a considerable piece of something heavy, block) inherited from Old French bloc (block, log) derived from Middle Dutch blok (treetrunk) derived from Old Dutch *blok (log) derived from Proto-Germanic *blukką (beam, log).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*blukką
Gloss
beam, log
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autoblock English
- backblock English
- bloc English
- block English
- block length English
- blockable English
- blockade English
- blockage English
- blockboard English
- blockbuster English
- blockbusting English
- blockchain English
- blockee English
- blocker English
- blockface English
- blockfield English
- blockfront English
- blockful English
- blockhead English
- blockheaded English
- blockhole English
- blockhouse English
- blockish English
- blocklayer English
- blocklaying English
- blocklike English
- blocklist English
- blocklong English
- blockmaker English
- blockmaking English
- blockquote English
- blockscape English
- blockship English
- blocksize English
- blockstone English
- blockwide English
- blockwise English
- blockwork English
- blockworthy English
- blocky English
- blocwide English
- boot block English
- bootblock English
- breechblock English
- cellblock English
- cinderblock English
- cockblock English
- cryoblock English
- deblock English
- diblock English
- docblock English
- flatblock English
- geo-block English
- haploblock English
- headblock English
- hemiblock English
- houseblock English
- iceblock English
- interblock English
- jawblock English
- macroblock English
- megablock English
- metalloblock English
- microblock English
- midblock English
- multiblock English
- nanoblock English
- netblock English
- nonbloc English
- pentablock English
- permablock English
- preblock English
- pseudoblock English
- pushblock English
- reblock English
- roadblock English
- seroblock English
- sigblock English
- spamblock English
- stereoblock English
- stopblock English
- stumblingblock English
- subblock English
- sunblock English
- superbloc English
- superblock English
- tailblock English
- textblock English
- triblock English
- unblock English
- woodblock English
- antiblocco Italian
- blocchista Italian
- blocco Italian
- interblocco Italian
- monoblocco Italian
- portablocco Italian
- blok Dutch, Flemish
- блок Russian
- блокпост Russian
- блочный Russian
- bloc Spanish, Castilian
- block Spanish, Castilian
- bloque Spanish, Castilian
- *bhulg'- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *blukką Proto-Germanic
- ブロック Japanese
- blok Middle English
- bloc Irish
- blokovat Czech
- bloc Old French
- բլոկ Armenian
- bloke Cebuano
- blok Middle Dutch
- block Manx
- блок Bulgarian
- ဘလောက် Burmese
- bloc Middle French
- *blok Old Dutch
- block Middle Low German
- *blok Old Saxon
- 블록 Korean