name
Meaning 1
The United States Capitol rotunda.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
rotunda
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noun
Meaning 2
A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: architecture
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: frequently capitalized
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative spelling of rotonda.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines, alt-of, alternative
Examples
- TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.
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noun
Meaning 5
A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
a large circular room
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: room
noun
Meaning 7
a building having a circular plan and a dome
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: building, edifice
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: ротонда (rotonda) — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Catalan: rotonda — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Czech: rotunda — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Finnish: rotunda — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- French: rotonde — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- German: Rotunde — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Ancient Greek: θόλος (thólos) — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Irish: cruinnteach — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Latin: tholus — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Polish: rotunda — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Portuguese: rotunda — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Russian: рото́нда (rotónda) — architecture: round building, often with a dome
- Finnish: rotunda — typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
- German: Halbgotisch — typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
- German: Rotunda — typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
- German: Rundgotisch — typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
- Polish: rotunda — typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script
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