rotunda

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rotunda (architecture)

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Rotunda (script)

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• (typography): Rotunda

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/
• Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda (plural rotundas or rotundae)

2. (architecture) A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
   • 1976, Bridget Cherry, “Ecclesiastical architecture”, in David M 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; […]

4. (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.
5. (Philippines) A roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
6. (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

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rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotund

• Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -unda

rotunda f

1. rotunda (building)

• See rotor

• “rotunda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rotunda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rotunda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrotundɑ/,
• Rhymes: -otundɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. rotunda

rotunda

1. inflection of rotundus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

rotundā

1. ablative feminine singular of rotundus

• 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 Wikipedia has an article on:

rotunda

Wikipedia ^pl

• IPA^(key): /rɔˈtun.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da
• Homophone: Rotunda

Borrowed from Italian rotonda.

rotunda f (diminutive rotundka, related adjective rotundowy)

1. (countable) rotunda (round building, usually small, often with a dome)

   Synonym: okrąglak

2. (countable) rotunda (representative circular hall, typical of Baroque and Classical palaces)
3. (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

Borrowed from German Rotunda.

rotunda f (related adjective rotundowy)

1. (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)

• rotunda in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rotunda in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rotunda in PWN's encyclopedia

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

rotunda f (plural rotundas)

1. (Portugal, Macau) traffic circle, roundabout

• IPA^(key): /roˈtunda/
• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

Borrowed from English rotunda.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾoˈtunda/
• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. Alternative form of rotonda