blanc

See also: Blanc

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French blanc (“white”). Doublet of blank.

Noun

blanc (countable and uncountable, plural blancs)

1. A white cosmetic.
   • 2013, M. C. Beaton, Rake's Progress:

     Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as much blanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.

   • 2015, Richard Corson, James Glavan, Beverly Gore Norcross, Stage Makeup, page 322:

     A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she added blanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."

   • 2020, Amelia Rauser, The Age of Undress, page 127:

     A white mask of cosmetic face paint, or blanc, had long been the norm for formally dressed ladies in the eighteenth century, but by the 1790s the deliberate artifice of the white mask was supplanted by a desire for a "natural" whiteness without additional coloring. "Rouge is no longer used; pallor is more interesting," wrote one commentator in 1804; "The ladies only use the blanc, and leave the rouge to the men."

2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.

Translations

cosmetic

• Finnish: valkoinen (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: blansz m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• film blanc
• Sauvignon blanc

 

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈblaŋ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈblaŋk]

• Audio (Valencia):

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• Audio (Catalonia):

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Adjective

blanc (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanques)

1. white

Derived terms

• arma blanca
• blancal
• blancor
• blanquejar
• blanqueta
• blanquí
• blanquiella
• bròquil blanc
• carta blanca
• emblancar
• emblanquir
• en blanc
• os blanc
• palomida blanca
• vi blanc

 

Noun

blanc m (plural blancs)

1. white
2. target (for shooting practice)
3. blank (empty space)

See also

Colors in Catalan · colors (layout · text)

blanc	gris	negre
roig, vermell; carmesí	taronja; marró	groc; crema
verd llima	verd
cian; xarxet	atzur	blau
violat; indi	magenta; lila, porpra	rosa

Further reading

• “blanc”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• “blanc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• blank

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus, perhaps via Old Venetan blanco. Compare also Italian bianco.

Adjective

blanc m (plural blance, feminine blanca)

1. white

   Synonym: jualb

References

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• bllanc (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus.

Adjective

blanc (feminine blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches) (ORB, broad)

1. white

References

• blanc in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• bl(l)anc in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, 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”).

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.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /blɑ̃/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /blã/

• Audio (France):

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Adjective

blanc (feminine blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white color

   Ce lait est blanc. ― This milk is white.

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

Derived terms

• à blanc
• ambaville blanc
• ambaville blanche
• angoisse de la page blanche
• ansérine blanche
• argent blanc
• arme blanche
• asphodèle blanc
• beurre blanc
• blanc bonnet, bonnet blanc
• blanc cassé
• blanc comme neige
• blanc comme un cachet d’aspirine
• blanc comme un cul
• blanc comme un linge
• blanc comme un navet
• blanc de blancs
• Blanc de Hotot
• blanc de noirs
• blanc de peur
• blanc de poulet
• blancheur
• blanchir
• blanchité
• bleu, blanc et rouge
• blouses blanches
• bonnet blanc, blanc bonnet
• boudin blanc
• bouillon-blanc
• canne blanche
• carte blanche
• chauffer à blanc
• chénopode blanc
• chèque en blanc
• cheval qui boit dans son blanc
• chocolat blanc
• cigogne blanche
• cousu de fil blanc
• dame blanche
• de but en blanc
• drapeau blanc
• éléphant blanc
• examen blanc
• faire chou blanc
• fromage blanc
• gelée blanche
• globule blanc
• grand blanc
• grand requin blanc
• groseille blanche
• gui blanc
• haricot blanc
• la bave du crapaud n’atteint pas la blanche colombe
• lastron blanc
• livre blanc
• lumière blanche
• magie blanche
• maillot blanc
• Maison Blanche
• mariage blanc
• marquer d’une pierre blanche
• mer Blanche
• merle blanc
• merlu blanc
• mont Blanc
• montrer patte blanche
• naine blanche
• Noël blanc
• noir et blanc
• noir sur blanc
• nuit blanche
• or blanc
• ours blanc
• oxyde blanc d’arsenic
• pages blanches
• pain blanc
• pêche blanche
• petit blanc
• poivre blanc
• rognon blanc
• saigner à blanc
• sauce blanche
• sauge blanche
• se faire des cheveux blancs
• se regarder dans le blanc des yeux
• spatule blanche
• sucre blanc
• syndrome de la page blanche
• tableau blanc
• trou blanc
• vin blanc

 

Noun

blanc m (plural blancs)

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. (informal) white wine

   Le poisson se mange avec du blanc.

   fish is eaten with white wine.

5. white person, person with a white complexion
   • 2015, Ilham Maad, Noir, pas black‎^[1]:

     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."

7. albumen, egg white

   Synonyms: albumen, blanc d’œuf, glaire (archaic)

8. white meat
9. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Synonyms

• (correction fluid) blanco, correcteur liquide, tipex

Derived terms

• blanc de blancs
• blanc de noirs

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: blan
• Guianese Creole: blan
• Haitian Creole: blan
• Karipúna Creole French: blã
• Louisiana Creole: blan, blon
• Seychellois Creole: blan
• Tayo: bla
• → Romanian: blanc

See also

Colors in French · couleurs (layout · text)

blanc	gris	noir
rouge; cramoisi, carmin	orange; brun, marron	jaune; crème
lime	vert	menthe
cyan, turquoise; bleu canard	azur, bleu ciel	bleu
violet, lilas; indigo	magenta; pourpre	rose

Further reading

• “blanc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin blancus.

Adjective

blanc

1. white

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blaŋk/

Adjective

blanc (comparative plus blanc, superlative le plus blanc)

1. white (having a light colour, reflecting all light)
2. white (having a light skin colour, mostly associated with European descent)

Derived terms

• blanchir

Related terms

• blanco

See also

Colors in Interlingua · colores (layout · text)

blanc, albe	gris	nigre
rubie	orange; brun	jalne; crema
verde lima	verde	verde mentha, acquamarine
cyano	azure	blau
violette; indigo	magenta; purpure	rosate

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French blanc.

Noun

blanc m (uncountable)

1. white

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white

Descendants

• French: blanc (see there for further descendants)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• blan (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan blanc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus (compare Catalan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

Old English

Alternative forms

• blonc, blaunc

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑnk/, [blɑŋk]

Adjective

blanc

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

Declension

Declension of blanc — Strong

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	blanc	blanc	blanc
Accusative	blancne	blance	blanc
Genitive	blances	blancre	blances
Dative	blancum	blancre	blancum
Instrumental	blance	blancre	blance
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	blance	blanca, blance	blanc
Accusative	blance	blanca, blance	blanc
Genitive	blancra	blancra	blancra
Dative	blancum	blancum	blancum
Instrumental	blancum	blancum	blancum

Declension of blanc — Weak

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	blanca	blance	blance
Accusative	blancan	blancan	blance
Genitive	blancan	blancan	blancan
Dative	blancan	blancan	blancan
Instrumental	blancan	blancan	blancan
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	blancan	blancan	blancan
Accusative	blancan	blancan	blancan
Genitive	blancra, blancena	blancra, blancena	blancra, blancena
Dative	blancum	blancum	blancum
Instrumental	blancum	blancum	blancum

Related terms

• blonca, blanca
• blencan

Descendants

• Middle English: blanke, blonke
  • Scots: blonk

Old French

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).

Akin to Old High German blanch "bright, white" (German blank (“blank, white”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blank/

Adjective

blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blanche)

1. white

Declension

Declension of blanc

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	blans	blanche	blanc
	Oblique	blanc	blanche		blanc
Plural	Subject	blanc	blanches		blanc
	Oblique	blans	blanches		blanc

Noun

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

1. white (color)
   • c. 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)

Related terms

• blanchoier

Descendants

• Bourguignon: blian
• Champenois: bian
• Gallo: blânc
• Lorrain: bianc
• Middle English: blonc, blank, blaunc, blaunche
  • English: blank
    • → German: Plenk
• Middle French: blanc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: bllànc, blianc (Jersey), bllaunc (continental Normandy)
• Picard: blanc
• Walloon: blan, blanc

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blancha, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanchas)

1. white

Descendants

• Occitan: blanc

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French blanc.

Noun

blanc n (plural blancuri)

1. white space

Declension

Declension of blanc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) blanc	blancul	(niște) blancuri	blancurile
genitive/dative	(unui) blanc	blancului	(unor) blancuri	blancurilor
vocative	blancule		blancurilor

References

• blanc in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French blanc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blã/

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanke, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blankes, feminine plural (before noun) blankès)

1. white

Noun

blanc m

1. white