Adjective: blanc
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | blanc |
| Singular f. | blanche |
| Plural m. | blancs |
| Plural f. | blanches |
Sample Sentences
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Ce lait est blanc. (This milk is white.)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, branc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
2. Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blank. See: German Adjectives '
blank', Dutch Adjectives '
blank'.
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