rondel

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

From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).

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. (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
5. (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

• roundel

• rondelet
• rondle
• rondo
• roundelay
• roundlet

• Lorden, Nolder, rondle

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

• Middle French: rondel, rondeau
  • French: rondel, rondeau, ⇒ rondelle (see there for further descendants)
    • → Romanian: rondel
  • → Italian: rondello
  • → Middle English: rondel, rundell, roundel, roundell
    • English: rondel, roundel, roundell, roundle
  • → Spanish: rondel

Borrowed from French rondelle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔn.dɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔndɛl
• Syllabification: ron‧del

rondel m inan (diminutive rondelek)

2. pan, saucepan (deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces)

   Hypernym: garnek

4. (historical, military) barbican (tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town)

   Synonym: barbakan

• → Ukrainian: ро́ндель (róndelʹ)

• rondel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rondel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rondel in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Italian rondello or French rondel.

rondel n (plural rondeluri)

1. rondel

rondel m (plural rondeles)

1. rondel (poem)

• “rondel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024