rotunda

  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.

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/
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).

round building

circular hall

rotunda

okrąglak

rotond

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