bloc

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /blɒk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /blɑk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: block

bloc (plural blocs)

1. A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
   • 2020, Geoffrey Skelley, Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Special Elections On Tuesday Could Hint At Another Blue Wave In 2020”, in FiveThirtyEight:

     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.

2. 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

• choc-a-bloc

• CLOB, LCBO

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈblɔk]

Borrowed from French bloc.

bloc m (plural blocs)

1. block
2. pad, notebook
3. bloc

• monobloc

Borrowed from English blog.

bloc m (plural blocs)

1. Obsolete spelling of blog

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

• “bloc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “bloc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “bloc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bloc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “bloc” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2024.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /blɔk/

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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)

• “bloc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English block or from a Romance language.

bloc m (genitive singular bloic, nominative plural bloic)

1. block

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bloc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bloc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from French bloc, German Blockhaus.

• IPA^(key): /blok/

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 (a big residential building with apartments)

   Synonym: (rare) blochaus

4. alliance, union (a coalition between different states, parties, groups etc. to achieve a common goal)

   Synonym: alianță

• în bloc
• bloc de desen
• bloc motor
• bloc cardiac
• bloc operator

Borrowed from French bloc. Doublet of block and bloque.

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

bloc m (plural blocs)

1. pad (such as of paper)

• “bloc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014