noun, feminine/ˈrexa/plural: rejas
grate, grating, grille; bars (especially of a prison cell)
“tras las rejas” — behind bars
Borrowed from Italian regge (“church doors”), from Late Latin (porta) rēgia (literally “kingly door”).
/ˈrexa/
grate, grating, grille; bars (especially of a prison cell)
“tras las rejas” — behind bars
Borrowed from Italian regge (“church doors”), from Late Latin (porta) rēgia (literally “kingly door”).
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.