rotunda

Senso (Inglese)

1. A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
2. 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.
3. (Philippines, alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of rotonda.
4. A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

Concetti

rotonda

sinonimi

tholos

round building

circular hall

Traduzioni

rotunda

rotonda

rotonde

rotonde

rotonda

Rundbau

Rotunde

tholus

rotunda

rotond

البناء الدائري

kubbeli dairevi bina

rundlich

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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