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See also: bloccò
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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”).
Noun
[edit]blocco m (plural blocchi)
- block (substantial piece of any substance)
- notebook, writing pad
- 1991, Nora Roberts, Attimi sospesi, tr. of Second Nature, tr. by Claudia Cavallaro, Harlequin Mondadori (publ.).
- Prese un blocco e una matita.
- He got a writing pad and a pencil.
- 1991, Nora Roberts, Attimi sospesi, tr. of Second Nature, tr. by Claudia Cavallaro, Harlequin Mondadori (publ.).
- set, block (a group of identical objects, regarded as a whole)
- (figurative) bloc, coalition
- blocco orientale ― Eastern bloc
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- blocco1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from French blocus, from Middle Dutch blochuus (“fortified house”).
Noun
[edit]blocco m (plural blocchi)
- blockade
- 2005, Peter J. Hugill, La comunicazione mondiale dal 1844, tr. by Domenico Gallo & Andrea Marti, Feltrinelli (publ.), page 15.
- Durante la Rivoluzione americana il blocco navale inglese delle coste americane risultò inefficace e la guerre de course inutile.
- During the American Revolution the English naval block on America's coasts resulted ineffective and the guerre de course was useless.
- 2005, Peter J. Hugill, La comunicazione mondiale dal 1844, tr. by Domenico Gallo & Andrea Marti, Feltrinelli (publ.), page 15.
- embargo
- Synonym: embargo
- block, blockage
- blocco stradale ― road block
- blocco dei rifornimenti ― blockage of supplies
- standstill, paralysis (a state in which it is impossible to progress)
- blocco del traffico ― traffic jam
- blocco della produzione ― standstill in production
- (economics) freeze (of pay, etc.)
- lockdown
- Synonym: lockdown
- 2020 September 18, Marta Rizzo, “"I dimenticati", per ricordare chi, con la pandemia ha definitivamente perso identità”, in la Repubblica[1]:
- Il blocco totale e la pandemia hanno reso più invisibili, di quanto già non fossero, disabili, migranti e rifugiati, donne e uomini nelle fasce della società più povere.
- The total lockdown and the pademic have made more invisible, more than they already were, the disabled, migrants and refugees, women and men in the poorest sections of society.
- (computing) crash
- (pathology) failure, arrest
- blocco cardiaco ― cardiac arrest
Further reading
[edit]- blocco2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]blocco
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