renglón

Spanish

Etymology

From reglón, augmentative of regla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /renˈɡlon/ [rẽŋˈɡlõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ren‧glón

Noun

renglón m (plural renglones)

1. line (written or printed row of words)
   • 1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, page 86:

     A cada uno de los muros de cada hexágono corresponden cinco anaqueles: cada anaquel encierra treinta y dos libros de formato uniforme; cada libro es de cuatrocientas diez páginas; cada página, de cuarenta renglones; cada renglón, de unas ochenta letras de color negro.

     On each of the walls of each hexagon there are five shelves: each shelf holds thirty-two books of the same style; each book is four hundred ten pages long; each page, forty lines; each line, some eighty letters printed in black.

2. line, merchandise (products or services sold by a business)

Derived terms

• a renglón seguido

 

Further reading

• “renglón”, 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