r rotunda

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English

The Unicode letter pair latin capital/small letter r rotunda rendered by different fonts.

Etymology

Representing the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin r rotunda (“round ‘r’”). The adjective, rotunda, is the feminine form of rotundus, thus inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is not attested in Latin; it might have been formed in English, or it might have been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɑː.ɹəʊˈtʌn.də/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "GenAm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˌɑɹ.ɹoʊˈtʌn.də/

Noun

r rotunda (plural not attested)

  1. A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ꝛ.

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