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reja

/ˈrexa/

noun, feminine/ˈrexa/plural: rejas

grate, grating, grille; bars (especially of a prison cell)

tras las rejasbehind bars

Borrowed from Italian regge (“church doors”), from Late Latin (porta) rēgia (literally “kingly door”).

noun, feminine/ˈrexa/plural: rejas

plowshare (or ploughshare) (soil-cutting bar of a plough)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin rēgula (“bar, stick; rule, model”). Doublet of regla. Cognate with English rail.