rotunda
See also: Rotunda
English
editAlternative forms
edit- (typography): Rotunda
Etymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/
- Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da
Noun
editrotunda (plural rotundas or rotundae)
- (architecture) A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
- 1976, Bridget Cherry, “Ecclesiastical architecture”, in David M[ackenzie] Wilson, editor, The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, →ISBN, pages 188–189:
- The rotunda begun but never completed by Abbot Wulfric (1047–59) at St Augustine’s Abbey as a link between the church of St Mary and that of St Peter and St Paul is an unusual and ambitious example of mid-eleventh-century English architecture which partly survives (fig. 4.6, top). […] Many of these rotundae are known to have had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury).
- 1998, “Antiquity”, in Bruce Almberg, Charles Earle, Michael Robinson, Katja Steiner, transl., edited by Stefan Grundmann, The Architecture of Rome: An Architectural History in 400 Individual Presentations, Stuttgart, London: Edition Axel Menges, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:
- The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.
- 2014 December, Mary Mills, “Foot Tunnels beneath the River Thames”, in Nick Catford, editor, Subterranea, number 37, Ascot, Berkshire: Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN, page 66, column 2:
- Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold the shafts; […]
- (typography, frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
- (Philippines) A roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
- (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editarchitecture: round building, often with a dome
typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
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roundabout — see roundabout
Anagrams
editCatalan
editAdjective
editrotunda
Cebuano
editPronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da
Noun
editrotunda
- a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
Czech
editPronunciation
editNoun
editrotunda f
- rotunda (building)
Declension
editRelated terms
edit- See rotor
Further reading
editFinnish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin rotunda.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrotunda
Declension
editInflection of rotunda (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rotunda | rotundat | |
genitive | rotundan | rotundojen | |
partitive | rotundaa | rotundoja | |
illative | rotundaan | rotundoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rotunda | rotundat | |
accusative | nom. | rotunda | rotundat |
gen. | rotundan | ||
genitive | rotundan | rotundojen rotundain rare | |
partitive | rotundaa | rotundoja | |
inessive | rotundassa | rotundoissa | |
elative | rotundasta | rotundoista | |
illative | rotundaan | rotundoihin | |
adessive | rotundalla | rotundoilla | |
ablative | rotundalta | rotundoilta | |
allative | rotundalle | rotundoille | |
essive | rotundana | rotundoina | |
translative | rotundaksi | rotundoiksi | |
abessive | rotundatta | rotundoitta | |
instructive | — | rotundoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Latin
editAdjective
editrotunda
- inflection of rotundus:
Adjective
editrotundā
References
edit- rotunda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Italian rotonda.
Noun
editrotunda f (diminutive rotundka, related adjective rotundowy)
- (countable) rotunda (round building, usually small, often with a dome)
- Synonym: okrąglak
- (countable) rotunda (representative circular hall, typical of Baroque and Classical palaces)
- (countable, historical) long women's coat, cut in a circular shape, fastened from top to bottom with small buttons, with vertical arm slits, popular in the 19th century
Declension
editDeclension of rotunda
Etymology 2
editNoun
editrotunda f (related adjective rotundowy)
- (uncountable, typography) rotunda (Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th century; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based)
Declension
editDeclension of rotunda
Derived terms
editnouns
Further reading
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Adjective
editrotunda
Noun
editrotunda f (plural rotundas)
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editrotunda
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English rotunda.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɾoˈtunda/ [ɾoˈt̪un̪.d̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -unda
- Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da
Noun
editrotunda (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)
- Alternative form of rotonda
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