párrafo

• parágrafo

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

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

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 8 June 2023:

     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 párrafo ― have a chat

• “párrafo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024