rotund

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”). Doublet of round.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/

Adjective

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)

1. Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.

   • 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (3rd ed.), W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, p. 96–97

     Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.

2. Having a round body shape; portly or pudgy; obese.
3. (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

Synonyms

• (having a round body shape): chubby, tubby; see also Thesaurus:overweight
• (full and rich sound): booming, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

Translations

Having a round or spherical shape

• Bulgarian: кръгъл (bg) (krǎgǎl)
• Catalan: rotund (ca)
• French: rond (fr) m
• German: rundlich (de)
• Italian: rotondo (it) m, tondo (it)
• Latin: rotundus
• Macedonian: трка́лезен (trkálezen), за́облен (záoblen)
• Portuguese: rotundo (pt)

Round in body shape

• Bulgarian: закръглен (bg) (zakrǎglen)
• French: rond (fr) m
• German: rundlich (de)
• Italian: rotondo (it)
• Macedonian: по́лничок (pólničok), дебе́личок (debéličok)
• Maori: pukunati

(of a sound) Full and rich

• Bulgarian: плътен (bg) (plǎten), звучен (bg) (zvučen)
• Macedonian: зву́чен (zvúčen)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rotund”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• untrod, Dutron

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotundus. First attested in 1917. Compare the inherited doublet rodó.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈtun]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈtunt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [roˈtunt]

Adjective

rotund (feminine rotunda, masculine plural rotunds, feminine plural rotundes)

1. emphatic
2. complete, flat out, downright

Derived terms

• rotundament

Related terms

• rotunditat

Further reading

• “rotund” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rotund” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rotund” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• rătund — obsolete

Etymology

Per most sources, borrowed from Latin rotundus, but alternatively may represent a crossing of older Romanian rătund (inherited from the Late Latin variant retundus) with words like roată (“wheel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roˈtund/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -und
• Hyphenation: ro‧tund

Adjective

rotund m or n (feminine singular rotundă, masculine plural rotunzi, feminine and neuter plural rotunde)

1. round
2. (of numbers) round
3. (figurative) round (plump)

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	rotund		rotundă		rotunzi	rotunde
	definite	rotundul		rotunda		rotunzii	rotundele
genitive- dative	indefinite	rotund		rotunde		rotunzi	rotunde
	definite	rotundului		rotundei		rotunzilor	rotundilor

Derived terms

• rotundă-puturoasă
• rotunji
• rotunjime
• rotunjor
• se da rotund

Related terms

• roată
• rotondă

Further reading

• rotund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)