# rotund
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run, to roll”). Doublet of round.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɹəʊˈtʌnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ɹoʊˈtʌnd/

### Adjective

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)
* Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
** 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind‎:He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
** 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (3rd ed.), W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, p. 96–97
    Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.
* Having a round body shape; portly or pudgy; obese.
* (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

#### Synonyms

* (having a round body shape): chubby, tubby; see also Thesaurus:overweight
* (full and rich sound): booming, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

#### Translations
### References

* John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “rotund”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
* Notes:
* ↑ The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English, p. 190, "rotate" entry

### Anagrams

* untrod, Dutron

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotundus. First attested in 1917. Compare the inherited doublet rodó.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ruˈtun]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ruˈtunt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [roˈtunt]

### Adjective

rotund (feminine rotunda, masculine plural rotunds, feminine plural rotundes)
* emphatic
* complete, flat out, downright

#### Derived terms

* rotundament

#### Related terms

* rotunditat

### References

* ↑ “rotund”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “rotund” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “rotund” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “rotund” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* rătund — obsolete

### Etymology

Per most sources, borrowed from Latin rotundus, but alternatively may represent a crossing of older Romanian rătund (inherited from the Late Latin variant retundus) with words like roată (“wheel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /roˈtund/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -und
* Hyphenation: ro‧tund

### Adjective

rotund m or n (feminine singular rotundă, masculine plural rotunzi, feminine and neuter plural rotunde)
* round
* (of numbers) round
* (figurative) round (plump)

#### Derived terms

* rotundă-puturoasă
* rotunji
* rotunjime
* rotunjor
* se da rotund

#### Related terms

* roată
* rotondă

### References

* ↑ Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/reˈtʊnd-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

### Further reading

* rotund in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)