rotunda

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/    美 /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 rotundae are known to have had a special funerary function (as was the case at Canterbury).
  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. Alternative spelling of rotonda. Philippines,alt-of,alternative
    — TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.
  4. A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

词形变化

rotundas plural rotundae plural Rotunda alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
band rotunda birotunda
相关词
fenestra rotunda r rotunda

词源

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