rotundus
Latin
Etymology
From rotō (“turn around, revolve”) + -undus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /roˈtun.dus/, [rɔˈt̪ʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /roˈtun.dus/, [roˈt̪un̪d̪us]
Adjective
rotundus (feminine rotunda, neuter rotundum, comparative rotundior, superlative rotundissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- round, circular
- spherical, rotund
- (figuratively) rounded, perfect
- (figuratively, of speech) polished, elegant
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rotundus | rotunda | rotundum | rotundī | rotundae | rotunda | |
| Genitive | rotundī | rotundae | rotundī | rotundōrum | rotundārum | rotundōrum | |
| Dative | rotundō | rotundō | rotundīs | ||||
| Accusative | rotundum | rotundam | rotundum | rotundōs | rotundās | rotunda | |
| Ablative | rotundō | rotundā | rotundō | rotundīs | |||
| Vocative | rotunde | rotunda | rotundum | rotundī | rotundae | rotunda | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: urtundë
- Asturian: redondu
- Catalan: rodó, redó, rotund (borrowing)
- Dutch: rond (through Old French), rotonde (borrowing)
- English: rotund (borrowing), round (through Old French)
- French: rond, rotonde (borrowing)
- Friulian: taront, tont
- Galician: redondo
- German: rund (through Old French)
- Italian: rotondo, tondo, ritondo
- Occitan: redond, ardon
References
- “rotundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rotundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rotundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.