rotund

Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”).^[1] Doublet of round.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)

1. Having a round, spherical or curved 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.

   • 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (3rd ed.), W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, p. 96–97

     Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.

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

• (having a round body shape): chubby, tubby; see also Thesaurus:overweight
• (full and rich sound): booming, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

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

• untrod, Dutron

Borrowed from Latin rotundus. First attested in 1917.^[1] Compare the inherited doublet rodó.

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

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

1. emphatic
2. complete, flat out, downright

• rotundament

• rotunditat

• “rotund”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “rotund” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rotund” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• rătund — obsolete

Per most sources, borrowed from Latin rotundus, but alternatively may represent a crossing of older Romanian rătund (inherited from the Late Latin variant retundus) with words like roată (“wheel”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /roˈtund/

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• Rhymes: -und
• Hyphenation: ro‧tund

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

1. round
2. (of numbers) round
3. (figurative) round (plump)

• rotundă-puturoasă
• rotunji
• rotunjime
• rotunjor
• se da rotund

• roată
• rotondă

• “rotund”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025