r rotunda

English

The Unicode letter pair latin capital/small letter r rotunda rendered by different fonts.

Etymology

From or representing Latin r rotunda (literally “round ‘r’”). The adjective rotunda is the feminine form of rotundus, inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is little attested in Latin, and might have been formed in English, or been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.ɹəʊˈtʌn.də/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.ɹoʊˈtʌn.də/

Noun

r rotunda (plural not attested)

(typography) A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.
Coordinate term: straight r
- 2017, Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen, editor, A Grammar of Möðruvallabók, BRILL, →ISBN, page 11:
  The distinction between r rotunda and straight r has not been kept in the transcription, as the usage of r rotunda is predictable from the preceding character: r rotunda is used after round letters.

Translations

curved form of the letter r

Czech: okrouhlé r
German: rundes r n