rondel

English

Alternative forms

• rondelle (uncommon in the musical or poetic senses)
• (dagger): roundel

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront (“circular”), probably originally *redond, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rotundus (“like a wheel, circular, round”)., related to rota (“wheel”).

Noun

rondel (plural rondels)

1. A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
2. The verse form rondeau.
3. A rondelle, (small) circular object.
4. A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
5. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Synonyms

• roundel

Related terms

• rondelet
• rondo
• roundelay
• roundlet

Translations

rondeau — see rondeau

long thin medieval dagger

• Danish: rondeldolk c
• French: dague à rouelles f
• German: Scheibendolch m
• Italian: daga a rondelle f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: rondelis m
• Polish: sztylet tarczkowy m
• Spanish: daga rondel f

Anagrams

• Lorden, Nolder, rondle

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Old French

Noun

rondel oblique singular, m (oblique plural rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative singular rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative plural rondel)

1. circular or round object
2. rondel; type of poem

Descendants

• English: rondel, rondeau (via French)
• French: rondeau