reloj

Meaning

1. (masculine) clock
2. (masculine) watch, wristwatch

Concepts

clock

watch

timepiece

wristwatch

ticker

chronometer

pendulum

swing

meter

see contra el reloj

chronomet

see como un reloj

horologe

timekeeper

chronograph

timer

hour

time

clocks

hours

o’clock

chronoscope

Hyphenated as

re‧loj

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/reˈlox/

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Catalan relotge (1362) (Modern Catalan rellotge), from the older orollotge, from Latin hōrologium, from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). The current form of the word may partly be a back-formation of relojes, plural of obsolete reloje, which better conforms with the Catalan source and would explain the final j, which is rare in Spanish.
Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese relojo, Portuguese relógio, French horloge, Italian orologio and Romanian orologiu.