bloco

Meaning

1. (masculine) block
2. (masculine) bloc
3. (masculine) pad, notebook
4. (Brazil, masculine) group of musicians and performers that mobilize crowds during carnival in Brazil

Concepts

block

pad

lump

chunk

ledger

📒

pig

🐖

tablet

unit

pad of paper

boulder

mass

pack

piece

Synonyms

tijolos

conjunto

massa

peça

Translations

bloc

blocco

bloque

Block

blok

Klotz

bloc

blockieren

κορμός

billot

οπτόπλινθος/τούβλο

τεμάχιο

Blockade

cub

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblɔ.ku/

Etymology

From French bloc (“group, block”), from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch bloc (“treetrunk”), from Old Saxon *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhulg'-, from *bhelg'- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”).