ronde

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English

Etymology

French

Noun

ronde (uncountable)

  1. (typography, dated) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ronde”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔndə/
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  • Hyphenation: ron‧de
  • Rhymes: -ɔndə

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch rondde, from Middle French ronde, from Old French reonde, from Old Spanish ronda, modification of robda, from Arabic ربط.

Noun

ronde f (plural ronden or rondes, diminutive rondje n)

  1. round, iteration
  2. tour, stage race
  3. lap, tour
    Synonym: rondje
  4. a watch (shift or round of standing guard)
Derived terms
  • → Indonesian: ronde
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

ronde

  1. inflection of rond:
    1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
    2. definite neuter singular attributive
    3. plural attributive

References

  1. ^ P.A.F. van Veen & N. van der Sijs, "ronde", Etymologisch woordenboek, 1997 (2nd ed.), Van Dale.
  2. ^ de Vries, Jan (1971) Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

ronde

  1. feminine singular of rond

Noun

ronde f (plural rondes)

  1. a watch (a period of time when guards are posted)
  2. (dance) a traditional dance where the dancers form a ring and move laterally with the music
  3. (music) a whole note, a semibreve

Derived terms

Further reading

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch ronde, from Middle Dutch rondde, from Middle French ronde, from Old French reonde, from Old Spanish ronda, modification of robda, from Arabic ربط. Doublet of ronda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ron‧dê

Noun

ronde (plural ronde-ronde, first-person possessive rondeku, second-person possessive rondemu, third-person possessive rondenya)

  1. round, iteration, lap.

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈron.de/
  • Rhymes: -onde
  • Hyphenation: rón‧de

Noun

ronde f

  1. plural of ronda

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology 1

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Noun

ronde f (plural rondes)

  1. (Jersey) beating, hiding
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Adjective

ronde f

  1. feminine singular of rond (“round”)

Spanish

Verb

ronde

  1. inflection of rondar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Walloon

Pronunciation

Adjective

ronde

  1. feminine singular of rond
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