blocco
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- block substantial piece of any substance
- notebook, writing pad
- A group of identical objects, regarded as a whole.
- (figurative) bloc, coalition
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc (bloc, group, block) derived from Middle French bloc (a considerable piece of something heavy, block) derived 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
- bloc English
- block English
- antiblocco Italian
- blocchista Italian
- interblocco Italian
- monoblocco Italian
- portablocco Italian
- blok Dutch, Flemish
- bloc French
- блок Russian
- bloc Spanish, Castilian
- bloque Spanish, Castilian
- *bhulg'- Proto-Indo-European
- *bʰelǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *blukką Proto-Germanic
- blok Middle English
- bloc Old French
- blok Middle Dutch
- блок Bulgarian
- bloc Middle French
- *blok Old Dutch
- *blok Old Saxon