párrafo

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Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin paragraphus (15th century), from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈparafo/ [ˈpa.ra.fo]
  • Rhymes: -arafo
  • Syllabification: pá‧rra‧fo

Noun

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párrafo m (plural párrafos)

  1. paragraph
    • 2022 September 12, Pilar Reyes, “Si Javier Marías tenía un primer párrafo, tenía una novela”, in El País[1], retrieved 2023-06-08:
      Pero yo sabía lo que significaba eso: si Javier tenía ya un primer párrafo, tenía una novela. El párrafo inicial de todas sus novelas contiene la novela entera, aunque él se reconociera como un escritor con brújula y no con mapa, es decir, que iba descubriendo el libro a medida que lo iba escribiendo.
      But I knew what that meant: if Javier already had a first paragraph, he had a novel. The opening paragraph of all his novels contained the entire novel, although he considered he recognized himself as a writer with a compass and not with a map, that is, he was discovering the book as he was writing it.
  2. chat; chitchat
    echar un párrafohave a chat

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