tondo
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus. Doublet of round.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tondo (plural tondos or tondi)
- A round picture or other work of art.
- 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 135:
- As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.
- 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
- In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]
TranslationsEdit
a round work of art
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
tondo (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
AnagramsEdit
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tondo
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of tondo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tondo | tondot | |
| genitive | tondon | tondojen | |
| partitive | tondoa | tondoja | |
| illative | tondoon | tondoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tondo | tondot | |
| accusative | nom. | tondo | tondot |
| gen. | tondon | ||
| genitive | tondon | tondojen | |
| partitive | tondoa | tondoja | |
| inessive | tondossa | tondoissa | |
| elative | tondosta | tondoista | |
| illative | tondoon | tondoihin | |
| adessive | tondolla | tondoilla | |
| ablative | tondolta | tondoilta | |
| allative | tondolle | tondoille | |
| essive | tondona | tondoina | |
| translative | tondoksi | tondoiksi | |
| instructive | — | tondoin | |
| abessive | tondotta | tondoitta | |
| comitative | — | tondoineen | |
| Possessive forms of tondo (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | tondoni | tondomme |
| 2nd person | tondosi | tondonne |
| 3rd person | tondonsa | |
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *tundus, back-derived from Late Latin retundus, whence older Italian ritondo.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tondo (feminine tonda, masculine plural tondi, feminine plural tonde)
NounEdit
tondo m (plural tondi)
Derived termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian tondo.
NounEdit
tondo n (plural tondouri)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tondo
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tondo | tondoul | (niște) tondouri | tondourile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tondo | tondoului | (unor) tondouri | tondourilor |
| vocative | tondoule | tondourilor | ||