rotunda
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See also: Rotunda
English
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Alternative forms
- (typography): Rotunda
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
Pronunciation
Noun
rotunda (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) Alternative spelling of rotonda
- (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
architecture: round building, often with a dome
typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
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Catalan
Adjective
rotunda
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da
Noun
rotunda
- a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
rotunda f
- rotunda (building)
Declension
Declension of rotunda (hard feminine)
Related terms
- See rotor
Further reading
Finnish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda.
Pronunciation
Noun
rotunda
Declension
| Inflection of rotunda (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | ||
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Latin
Adjective
rotunda
- inflection of rotundus:
Adjective
rotundā
References
- "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
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian rotonda.
Noun
rotunda 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
Declension of rotunda
Etymology 2
Noun
rotunda 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
Declension of rotunda
Derived terms
(nouns):
Further reading
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Adjective
rotunda
Noun
rotunda f (plural rotundas)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
rotunda
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ɾoˈtunda/ [ɾoˈt̪un̪.d̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -unda
- Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da
Noun
rotunda (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)
- Alternative form of rotonda
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