Noun: blocco
Gender: m
Hyphenation: blòc‧co
| Singular m | blocco |
| Plural m | blocchi |
Sample Sentences
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Prese un blocco e una matita. (He got a writing pad and a pencil.)
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blocco orientale (Eastern bloc)
Nouns inflected like blocco
sbrego,
sbergo,
sbarco,
sbocco,
sbieco,
sarago,
scacco,
scalco,
scinco,
diftongo,
smacco,
smergo,
slargo,
guidalesco,
pacciugo,
antiscialagogo,
rinfresco,
granturco,
pappalecco,
rinfianco, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French bloc, 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 Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). See: French Nouns '
bloc'.
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