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noun
A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From or representing Latin r rotunda (literally “round ‘r’”). The adjective rotunda is the feminine form of rotundus, inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is little attested in Latin, and might have been formed in English, or been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
