rectangle

English

A rectangle tilted to the side.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛktæŋɡl̩/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

rectangle (plural rectangles)

2. (geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

   Hypernym: polygon

   Hyponym: square

   Coordinate terms: circle, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus

3. (nontechnical) Such a quadrilateral that is oblong (longer than it is wide): one that is not regular (equilateral), that is, any except a square.

   Hypernyms: shape, polygon

   Coordinate terms: square, circle, oval, ellipse, triangle, trapezoid, rhombus, lozenge, diamond

4. (archaic) A right angle.
   • 1884, A Square [pseudonym; Edwin A. Abbott], Flatland […] , London: Seeley & Co., Part I: This World, § 12.— Of the Doctrine of our Priests, page 46:

     For why should you praise, for example, the integrity of a Square who faithfully defends the interests of his client, when you ought in reality rather to admire the exact precision of his Rectangles?

5. (archaic) The product of two quantities.
   • 1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “Product”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 886, column 1:

     In Lines it [the product] is always (and ſometimes in Numbers) call'd the Rectangle between the two Lines, multiply'd by one another.

Hyponyms

• (quadrilateral): oblong (not in technical use)
• (quadrilateral): square

Derived terms

• golden rectangle
• love rectangle
• open rectangle

Related terms

• rect angle
• rectangular
• rectification
• rectify
• rectilinear

Translations

quadrilateral

• Albanian: drejtkëndësh (sq) m
• Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل m (mustaṭīl)
• Armenian: ուղղանկյուն (hy) (uġġankyun)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܵܘܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ m (tāwrīḵā)
• Asturian: rectángulu m
• Aymara: wiskhalla
• Azerbaijani: düzbucaq
• Basque: laukizuzen
• Belarusian: прамавуго́льнік n or m (pramavuhólʹnik), прастаку́тнік n (prastakútnik) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্র (bn) (aẏotokkhetro)
• Breton: skouergorneg
• Bulgarian: правоъгъ́лник m (pravoǎgǎ́lnik)
• Burmese: လေးထောင့် (my) (le:htaung.), စတုဂံ (my) (ca.tu.gam)
• Catalan: rectangle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長方形 / 长方形 (zh) (chángfāngxíng), 矩形 (zh) (jǔxíng)

• Czech: obdélník (cs) m
• Danish: rektangel (da) n
• Dutch: rechthoek (nl) m
• Egyptian: (jfd)
• Esperanto: ortangulo, rektangulo
• Estonian: ristkülik (et)
• Faroese: rætthyrningur m
• Finnish: suorakulmio (fi)
• French: rectangle (fr) m
• Galician: rectángulo (gl) m
• Georgian: მართკუთხედი (martḳutxedi)
• German: Rechteck (de) n, Karree (de) n, Orthogon
• Greek: ορθογώνιο παραλληλόγραμμο (el) (orthogónio parallilógrammo)

  Ancient: ὀρθογώνιον n (orthogṓnion)

• Guaraní: takamby irundyjoja
• Haitian Creole: rektang
• Hebrew: מַלְבֵּן (he) m (malbén)
• Hindi: आयत (hi) m (āyat)
• Hungarian: téglalap (hu)
• Icelandic: rétthyrningur m
• Ido: rektangulo (io)
• Indonesian: persegi panjang
• Ingrian: oikianurkkain
• Interlingua: rectangulo m
• Irish: dronuilleog
• Italian: rettangolo (it) m
• Japanese: 長方形 (ja) (ちょうほうけい, chōhōkei), 矩形 (ja) (くけい, kukei)
• Kankanaey: kaman-ruwangan
• Kannada: ಆಯತ (kn) (āyata)
• Kashubian: prostonórt m
• Kazakh: тікбұрыш (tıkbūryş)
• Khmer: ចតុកោណកែង (km) (caʼtokaon kaeng)
• Korean: 직사각형(直四角形) (ko) (jiksagakhyeong), 구형(矩形) (ko) (guhyeong), 장방형(長方形) (jangbanghyeong)
• Kumyk: тюз мююшлюк (tüz müyuşlük)
• Kyrgyz: тик бурчтук (tik burctuk), тикбурч (tikburc)
• Lao: ຮູບສີ່ແຈສາກ (lo) (hūp sī chǣ sāk)
• Latin: rectangulum
• Latvian: taisnstūris (lv) m
• Limburgish: rechhook (li)
• Lithuanian: stačiakampis m
• Lombard: retàngol
• Macedonian: правоа́голник m (pravoágolnik)
• Malay: segi empat tepat (ms)
• Maori: tapawhā, porowhā, tapawhā hāngai
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тэгш өнцөгт (tegš öncögt)

• Navajo: nineezgo dikʼą́, dikʼą́ągo heeneez, dį́įʼgo yistłʼah
• Northern Sami: rektáŋgel
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rektangel (no) n

  Nynorsk: rektangel n

• Occitan: rectangle (oc) m
• Pashto: مستطيل m (mostatil)
• Persian: مستطیل (fa) (mostatil), راست‌گوشه (râsat-guše)
• Piedmontese: retàngol m
• Polish: prostokąt (pl) m
• Portuguese: rectângulo (pt) m (Portugal), retângulo (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਆਇਤ (pa) f (āita)
• Quechua: wask'a
• Romanian: dreptunghi (ro) n
• Russian: прямоуго́льник (ru) (prjamougólʹnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: dronn-uileannag f, ceart-cheàrnach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: правоугаоник m, пра̏вокӯтнӣк m

  Roman: pravougaonik m, prȁvokūtnīk (sh) m

• Sicilian: rittànculu
• Silesian: prostokůnt m
• Slovak: obdĺžnik (sk) m
• Slovene: pravokotnik m
• Somali: laydi
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pšawokut m

  Upper Sorbian: praworóžk m

• Southern Altai: тӱс толукту булуҥ (tüs toluktu buluŋ)
• Spanish: rectángulo (es) m
• Sundanese: pasagi burung
• Swahili: mstatili (sw)
• Swedish: rektangel (sv) c
• Tagalog: rektanggulo, parihaba (tl)
• Tajik: росткунҷа (rostkunja), мустатил (mustatil) (literary), ростгуша (rostguša)
• Tamil: செவ்வகம் (ta) (cevvakam)
• Tatar: турыпочмак (turıpoçmaq)
• Telugu: దీర్ఘ చతురస్రం (te) (dīrgha caturasraṁ)
• Thai: สี่เหลี่ยมผืนผ้า (th) (sìi-lìiam-pʉ̌ʉn-pâa)
• Turkish: dikdörtgen (tr), mustatil (tr) (obsolete)
• Turkmen: gönüburçluk
• Ukrainian: прямоку́тник m (prjamokútnyk)
• Urdu: مُسْتَطِیل (mustatīl)
• Uyghur: تىك تۆتبۇلۇڭ (tik tötbulung)
• Uzbek: toʻgʻriburchak, mustatil (uz) (literary, dated)
• Vietnamese: hình chữ nhật (vi)
• Waray-Waray: rectanggulo
• Welsh: cyfongl f
• West Flemish: rechtoek
• Yiddish: גראָדעק (grodek)

Adjective

rectangle (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Right-angled.

   a rectangle triangle

References

• “rectangle, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “rectangle, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• “rectangle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “rectangle”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “rectangle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəkˈtaŋ.ɡlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rekˈtaŋ.ɡle]

Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Related terms

• rectangular

Further reading

• “rectangle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛk.tɑ̃ɡl/

• Audio:

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Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Derived terms

• rectangulaire

Adjective

rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. (geometry) right-angled (of a geometric figure)

   Antonyms: obtusangle, acutangle

   un triangle rectangle ― a right-angled triangle

   un parallélépipède rectangle ― a rectangular cuboid

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• glacèrent