English

textblock

From text + block.

A compound of text + block

Proto-Italic *teksō

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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’

Medieval Latin textus ‘text’

Old French texte

Middle English text

English text

Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- ‘thick plank’

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Old Dutch *blok ‘log’

Middle Dutch blok ‘treetrunk’

Old French bloc ‘log’

Middle English blok ‘log’

English block

Today it means

noun The block of pages making up a book, excluding the binding.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / textblock