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French[edit]

Etymologyedit

From Middle French , from Old French , from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German «bright, white» (German «polished, naked»), Old Norse blankr «white» (Danish «bright, shiny»), Dutch «white, shining». More at , .

Adjectiveedit

blanc (feminine singular , masculine plural , feminine plural )

1. white color

   Ce lait est blanc. — This milk is white.

2. blank, unused
3. (, one’s look) blank, without expression

Nounedit

blanc m (plural )

1. white (color)
2. silence while in a dialog.
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form.

   Inscrivez votre nom dans le blanc en bas de la page. — Write your name in the blank at the bottom of the page.

4. () white wine.

   Le poisson se mange avec du blanc. — fish is eaten with white wine.

5. white

   2015, Ilham Maad, Noir, pas black‎:
   C’est qu’en France, les blancs n’existent pas et par contre la façon de parler des nonblancs existe et évolue avec le temps. Parce qu’effectivement, d’abord on était sur des termes purement et simplement racistes avec « bamboula, negro, nègre, bicot, bougnoule » et puis après ça a évolué et on est arrivé à « black, beur »… Donc je sais pas quand est-ce que ça a commencé exactement, moi je marque ça aux années 80, le hip hop, voilà, la black music…In France, there are no Whites, but names for non-Whites are constantly evolving. First we had terms that were purely and simply racist, like jigaboo, negro, nigger, coon, sambo… That evolved until we got to Black, Brownie… I’m not sure when that came in, but I guess it was the 1980s, with hip-hop and «Black music.»

   person, person with a white complexion.

6. white, egg white
7. white meat
8. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Descendantsedit

• Antillean Creole:
• Guianese Creole:
• Haitian Creole:
• Karipúna Creole French: blã
• Louisiana Creole French: , blon
• Seychellois Creole:
• Tayo:

“blanc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French[edit]

Etymologyedit

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German «bright, white» (German (“blank, white”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch (“white, shining”). More at , .

Adjectiveedit

blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singular )

1. white

Declensionedit

Declension of blanc

Nounedit

blanc m (oblique plural , nominative singular , nominative plural blanc)

1. white

   circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:
   Ses haubers est coverz de sanc:De roge i a plus que de blanc.
   His chainmail is covered in blood
   There’s more red than white (referring to his white chainmail)

   (color)

Descendantsedit

• Burgundian:
• Champaignat: bian
• Gallo: blânc
• Lorrain: bianc
• Middle English: ,

  English: blank

• Middle French: (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: ,
• Picard:
• Walloon: ,

Old English[edit]

Etymologyedit

From Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright», «shining», «blinding», «white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch, (“bright», «white”), hence German (“blank», «white”), Old Norse blankr (“white”), hence Danish (“shiny”), Swedish (“shiny”), Dutch (“white», «shining”).

blanc

1. white
2. greyish-white, pale, pallid

Declensionedit

Declension of blanc — Strong

Declension of blanc — Weak