rotund

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotundus (“round”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rota (“wheel”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, to roll”) . Doublet of round, which arrived through Old French/Anglo-Norman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/
• IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/

Adjective

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)

1. Having a round or spherical 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.

2. Having a round body shape; portly or plump; podgy.
3. (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

Translations

Having a round or spherical shape

• French: rond (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: rotondo (it) m, tondo (it)
• Latin: rotundus

Round in body shape

• French: rond (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: rotondo (it)
• Maori: pukunati

(of a sound) Full and rich

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rotund”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• untrod

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈtun]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ruˈtunt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [roˈtunt]

Adjective

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

1. emphatic
2. complete, flat out, downright

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Romanian

Alternative forms

• rătund (regional, dated)

Etymology

From Latin rotundus (“round”), possibly through a Vulgar Latin form retundus, especially in the case of the variant form, rătund, which was the original form (compare Spanish and Portuguese redondo, archaic Italian ritondo (standard rotondo), Occitan redond, Catalan redó (variant of standard rodó), French rond (Old French reont)). The current standard form of the word may simply be a natural evolution from the older form in southern Romania.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roˈtund/

Adjective

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

1. round

Declension

Declension of rotund

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	rotund		rotundă	rotunzi	rotunde
	definite	rotundul		rotunda	rotunzii	rotundele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	rotund		rotunde	rotunzi	rotunde
	definite	rotundului		rotundei	rotunzilor	rotundilor

Derived terms

• rotunji