renglón
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /renˈɡlon/ [rẽŋˈɡlõn]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: ren‧glón
Noun
renglón m (plural renglones)
- 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.
- line, merchandise (products or services sold by a business)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “renglón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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