ronde

See also: rondé

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

• chemin de ronde (probably etymologically unrelated)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Doner, Drone, Roden, doner, drone, nerdo, orned, redon, renod

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔndə/

• Audio

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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

• bonusronde

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ̃d/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ̃d
• Homophone: rondes

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

• à la ronde

 

Further reading

• “ronde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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): [ˈrɔnd̪ə]
• 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

• “ronde” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ronde f

1. plural of ronda

Anagrams

• derno, dreno, drenò, drone, rendo

Norman

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ronde f (plural rondes)

1. (Jersey) beating, hiding

Synonyms

• dêgraîsseuse
• èrlîntcheuse
• latteuse
• sécouée
• stipanne
• suée

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

• IPA^(key): /ʀɔ̃t/

Adjective

ronde

1. feminine singular of rond