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rotunda^¹

/ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/ UK
/ɹoʊˈtʌndə/ US

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

noun rotundas · rotundae · Rotunda

A round building, usually small, often with a dome. 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
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.
Philippines, alternative Alternative spelling of rotonda TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.
A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

Rotunda^²

proper noun

The United States Capitol rotunda. No African-Americans have lain in state in the Rotunda, and only two have lain there in honor: Mrs. Parks in 2005 and Officer Jacob Joseph Chestnut, a Capitol Police officer killed in the line of duty, in 1998.

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noun architecture: round building, often with a dome

Português	rotunda
Français	rotonde
Deutsch	Rotunde
Русский	рото́нда rotónda

noun typography: Gothic typeface based on a 13th-C. rounded script

Deutsch	Halbgotisch, Rotunda, Rundgotisch

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@misc{rotunda_2026,
  title = {rotunda},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rotunda},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}