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• (typography): Rotunda

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹə(ʊ)ˈtʌndə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹoʊˈtʌndə/
• ハイフネーション: ro‧tun‧da

名詞

rotunda (plural rotundas or rotundae)

1. (architecture) A round building, usually small, often with a dome.
   • 1976, Bridget Cherry, “Ecclesiastical architecture”, in David M[ackenzie] Wilson, editor, The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, London: Methuen & Co Ltd, →ISBN, pages 188–189:

     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).

   • 1998, “Antiquity”, in Bruce Almberg, Charles Earle, Michael Robinson, Katja Steiner, transl., edited by Stefan Grundmann, The Architecture of Rome: An Architectural History in 400 Individual Presentations, Stuttgart; London: Edition Axel Menges, →ISBN, page 29, column 2:

     The purely Greek character of the temple is revealed in the fact that there is no portico aligning the structure; Roman tholoi and rotundae are usually distinguished by a portico.

   • 2014 December, Mary Mills, “Foot Tunnels beneath the River Thames”, in Nick Catford, editor, Subterranea, number 37, Ascot, Berkshire: Subterranea Britannica, →ISSN, page 66, column 2:

     Access to the shafts is gained via a brick entrance rotunda below a glass dome. The walls of these rotundae are built over the outer edge of caissons which hold the shafts; […]

2. (typography, frequently capitalized) 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) Alternative spelling of rotonda.

   TPLEX Rotunda is a roundabout located in Rosario, La Union.

4. (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles.

派生語

関連する語

• fenestra rotunda
• r rotunda

アナグラム

• toundra

形容詞

rotundā

1. ablative feminine singular of rotundus

参照

• "rotunda", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)