oblong

See also: Oblong

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Adjective

oblong (comparative more oblong, superlative most oblong)

1. Longer than wide or wider than long; not square.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 19:

     The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.

2. Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.

Translations

longer than wide

• Armenian: երկարավուն (hy) (erkaravun)
• Catalan: oblong (ca)
• Czech: podlouhlý (cs)
• Dutch: langwerpig (nl)
• French: oblong (fr)
• Georgian: მოგრძო (mogrʒo), წაგრძელებული (c̣agrʒelebuli)
• German: länglich (de)
• Greek: στενόμακρος (el) (stenómakros)
• Icelandic: ílangur (is)

• Norman: bêlong
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avlang

  Nynorsk: avlang

• Portuguese: oblongo (pt), oblongado
• Romanian: prelung (ro)
• Russian: продолговатый (ru) (prodolgovatyj), вытянутый (ru) (vytjanutyj)
• Spanish: oblongo (es)
• Swedish: avlång (sv)

roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal

• French: oblong (fr)
• Norman: bêlong

• Spanish: oblongo (es)
• Swedish: avlång (sv)

Noun

oblong (plural oblongs)

1. Something with an oblong shape.
2. A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 88:

     Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.

Translations

with an oblong shape

• German: Oblong n, Oblongum n, Quadratum oblongum n, längliches Rechteck

• Latin: rectangulum oblongum

Related terms

• oblate
• obloid

See also

• prolate
• rectangle

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Adjective

oblong (feminine oblonga, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)

1. oblong

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Adjective

oblong (feminine singular oblongue, masculine plural oblongs, feminine plural oblongues)

1. oblong

Further reading

• “oblong” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).