rotund

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin rotundus (round), from Latin rota (wheel), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (to run, to roll).[1] Doublet of round, which arrived through Old French/Anglo-Norman.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/
  • (file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/

Adjective[edit]

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)

  1. Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
    • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
      He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
    • 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (3rd ed.), W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, p. 96–97
      Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.
  2. Having a round body shape; portly or pudgy; obese.
  3. (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin rotundus. First attested in 1917.[1] Compare the inherited doublet rodó.

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rotund (feminine rotunda, masculine plural rotunds, feminine plural rotundes)

  1. emphatic
  2. complete, flat out, downright

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  1. ^ rotund”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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Romanian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Per most sources, borrowed from Latin rotundus, but alternatively may represent a crossing of older Romanian rătund (inherited from the Late Latin variant retundus) with words like roată (wheel).[1]

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rotund m or n (feminine singular rotundă, masculine plural rotunzi, feminine and neuter plural rotunde)

  1. round

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  1. ^ Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008-), “*/reˈtʊnd-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.