rotunda

• (typography): Rotunda

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/
• Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda (plural rotundas or rotundae)

2. (architecture) A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
   • 1976, Bridget Cherry, “Ecclesiastical architecture”, in David M[ackenzie] Wilson, editor, The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, →ISBN, pages 188–189:

     The rotunda begun but never completed by Abbot Wulfric (1047–59) at St Augustine’s Abbey as a link between the church of St Mary and that of St Peter and St Paul is an unusual and ambitious example of mid-eleventh-century English architecture which partly survives (fig. 4.6, top). […] Many of these rotundae are known to have had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury).

   • 1998, “Antiquity”, in Bruce Almberg, Charles Earle, Michael Robinson, Katja Steiner, transl., edited by Stefan Grundmann, The Architecture of Rome: An Architectural History in 400 Individual Presentations, Stuttgart, London: Edition Axel Menges, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:

     The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.

   • 2014 December, Mary Mills, “Foot Tunnels beneath the River Thames”, in Nick Catford, editor, Subterranea, number 37, Ascot, Berkshire: Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN, page 66, column 2:

     Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold the shafts; […]

4. (typography, frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based.
5. (Philippines) Alternative spelling of rotonda.

   TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.

6. (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

• band rotunda

• r rotunda

• toundra

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotund

• Hyphenation: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

• IPA^(key): [ˈrotunda]
• Rhymes: -unda

rotunda f

1. rotunda (building)

• See rotor

• “rotunda”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rotunda”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rotunda”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrotundɑ/, [ˈro̞t̪undɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -otundɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ro‧tun‧da
• Hyphenation^(key): ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. rotunda

rotunda

1. inflection of rotundus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

rotundā

1. ablative feminine singular of rotundus

• "rotunda", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): /rɔˈtun.da/

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• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da
• Homophone: Rotunda

Borrowed from Italian rotonda.

rotunda f (diminutive rotundka, related adjective rotundowy)

1. (countable) rotunda (round building, usually small, often with a dome)

   Synonym: okrąglak

2. (countable) rotunda (representative circular hall, typical of Baroque and Classical palaces)
3. (countable, historical) long women's coat, cut in a circular shape, fastened from top to bottom with small buttons, with vertical arm slits, popular in the 19th century

Borrowed from German Rotunda.

rotunda f (related adjective rotundowy)

1. (uncountable, typography) rotunda (Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th century; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based)

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

• Rhymes: -ũdɐ

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

rotunda f (plural rotundas)

1. (Portugal, Macau) traffic circle, roundabout

   Synonym: (Brazil) rotatória

2. (architecture) rotunda (a round building)

• “rotunda”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “rotunda”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /roˈtunda/ [roˈt̪ũn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

Borrowed from English rotunda.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾoˈtunda/ [ɾoˈt̪un̪.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: ro‧tun‧da

rotunda (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜓᜈ᜔ᜇ)

1. alternative form of rotonda