rondel
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Middle English roundel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).
Noun edit
rondel (plural rondels)
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
- The verse form rondeau.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
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rondeau — see rondeau
long thin medieval dagger
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Old French edit
Noun edit
rondel oblique singular, m (oblique plural rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative singular rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative plural rondel)
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French rondelle.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rondel m inan (diminutive rondelek)
- pan, saucepan (deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces)
- Hypernym: garnek
- (historical) barbican (tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town)
- Synonym: barbakan
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Declension of rondel
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian rondello or French rondel.
Noun edit
rondel n (plural rondeluri)
Declension edit
Declension of rondel
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) rondel | rondelul | (niște) rondeluri | rondelurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) rondel | rondelului | (unor) rondeluri | rondelurilor |
vocative | rondelule | rondelurilor |
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Noun edit
rondel m (plural rondeles)
- rondel (poem)
Further reading edit
- “rondel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014