bloc

bloc is masculine in French.

a block (e.g., of wood); a bloc, an alliance; a pad of paper; block (of memory, of code)

Inherited 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 Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).