tondo
See also: tóndo
English
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Etymology
From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus.
Pronunciation
Noun
tondo (plural tondos or tondi)
- A round picture or other work of art.
- 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 135:
- As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.
- 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press (→ISBN), page 34:
- In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]
- 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press (→ISBN), page 135:
Translations
a round work of art
See also
Further reading
tondo (art) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tondo
Declension
Inflection of tondo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tondo | tondot | |
genitive | tondon | tondojen | |
partitive | tondoa | tondoja | |
illative | tondoon | tondoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tondo | tondot | |
accusative | nom. | tondo | tondot |
gen. | tondon | ||
genitive | tondon | tondojen | |
partitive | tondoa | tondoja | |
inessive | tondossa | tondoissa | |
elative | tondosta | tondoista | |
illative | tondoon | tondoihin | |
adessive | tondolla | tondoilla | |
ablative | tondolta | tondoilta | |
allative | tondolle | tondoille | |
essive | tondona | tondoina | |
translative | tondoksi | tondoiksi | |
abessive | tondotta | tondoitta | |
instructive | — | tondoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
Etymology
Clipping of ritondo, old variant of rotondo.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ondo
Adjective
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Noun
tondo m (plural tondi)
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