rectangular

English

rectangular clock face

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjəlɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɛkˈtæŋɡjʊlə/
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

rectangular (not generally comparable, comparative more rectangular, superlative most rectangular)

1. Having a shape like a rectangle.

   rectangular bench

   rectangular grid

   rectangular object

   rectangular table

2. Having axes that meet each other with right angles.

Derived terms

• birectangular
• equirectangular
• hyperrectangular
• nonrectangular
• rapid rectangular flashing beacon
• rectangular coordinates
• rectangular cuboid
• rectangular hyperbola
• rectangularise
• rectangularity
• rectangularization
• rectangularly
• rectangularness
• rectangular number
• rectangularwise
• subrectangular
• sub-rectangular
• trirectangular
• unrectangular

Translations

having a shape like a rectangle

• Arabic: مُسْتَطِيل (mustaṭīl)
• Armenian: ուղղանկյուն (hy) (uġġankyun)
• Bengali: আয়তক্ষেত্রাকৃতি (aẏotokkhetrakriti)
• Bulgarian: правоъ́гълен (pravoắgălen)
• Catalan: rectangular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 矩形的 (zh) (jǔxíng de)

• Czech: obdélníkový (cs), rektangulární (cs)
• Danish: rektangulær
• Dutch: rechthoekig (nl), rechthoekige (nl)
• Esperanto: ortangula
• Finnish: suorakulmainen (fi), suorakaiteen muotoinen
• French: rectangulaire (fr)
• Georgian: მართკუთხა (martḳutxa)
• German: rechteckig (de), rechtwinklig (de), rechtwinkelig (de)
• Greek: ορθογώνιος (el) (orthogónios)

  Ancient Greek: ὀρθογώνιος (orthogṓnios)

• Hebrew: מלבני (he) m (malbení)
• Italian: rettangolare (it)
• Japanese: 直角の (ja) (ちょっかくの, chokkaku no)
• Latin: rectiangulus, rectangulus
• Macedonian: правоаголен (pravoagolen)
• Māori: porowhā
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rektangulær (no)

  Nynorsk: rektangulær

• Piedmontese: retangolar
• Polish: prostokątny (pl)
• Portuguese: retangular (pt)
• Russian: прямоуго́льный (ru) (prjamougólʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: u obliku pravougaonika, pravougaoni
• Spanish: rectangular (es)
• Swedish: rektangulär (sv)
• Tagalog: paritadlungin
• Telugu: చతురస్త్ర (caturastra), చదరం (cadaraṁ)
• Uzbek: to’rtburchak
• Welsh: cyfongl

having axes that meet each other with right angles

• Finnish: suorakulmainen (fi)
• Polish: prostopadłościenny

Catalan

Etymology

From rectangle +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [rək.təŋ.ɡuˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rək.təŋ.ɡuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [rek.taŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [rek.taŋ.ɡuˈlar]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

Adjective

rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulars)

1. rectangular

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Galician

Alternative forms

• retangular (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Fron rectángulo +‎ ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /rɛktaŋɡuˈlaɾ/ [rɛk.t̪ɑŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /rɛktaŋɡuˈlaɾ/ [rɛk.t̪ɑŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /rɛktaŋħuˈlaɾ/ [rɛk.t̪ɑŋ.ħuˈlaɾ]

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

Adjective

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares)

1. rectangular

Related terms

• rectángulo

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Portuguese

Adjective

rectangular m or f (plural rectangulares, not comparable)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of retangular; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rectangular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Alternative forms

• ректангулар (rectangular) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French rectangulaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rek.tan.ɡuˈlar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

Adjective

rectangular m or n (feminine singular rectangulară, masculine plural rectangulari, feminine/neuter plural rectangulare)

1. rectangular

Declension

Declension of rectangular

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	rectangular		rectangulară	rectangulari	rectangulare
	definite	rectangularul		rectangulara	rectangularii	rectangularele
genitive- dative	indefinite	rectangular		rectangulare	rectangulari	rectangulare
	definite	rectangularului		rectangularei	rectangularilor	rectangularelor

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish rectángulo

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Old Spanish -ar

Spanish -ar

Spanish rectangular

From rectángulo + -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡtanɡuˈlaɾ/ [reɣ̞.t̪ãŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: rec‧tan‧gu‧lar

Adjective

rectangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural rectangulares)

1. rectangular

Related terms

• rectángulo

Further reading

• “rectangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025