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語源

Generally regarded as deriving from rotō (“turn, revolve”) or Lua error in Module:languages at line 791: The function getByCode expects a string as its first argument, but received a table.. First attested in the works of Cato the Elder (circa 200 BC).

It has also been suggested that the alternative form retundus, whence most of the Romance descendants derive, actually reflects the original Latin form (despite only being attested from the seventh century CE). If so, the first element would derive from an older *retō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (cf. Proto-Celtic *reteti), and the Classical rotundus would reflect later influence from rota (“wheel”).^[1]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /roˈtun.dus/, [rɔˈt̪ʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /roˈtun.dus/, [roˈt̪un̪d̪us]

形容詞

rotundus (feminine rotunda, neuter rotundum, 比較級 rotundior, 最上級 rotundissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. round, circular
2. spherical, rotund
3. (figuratively) rounded, perfect
4. (figuratively, of speech) polished, elegant

語形変化

First/second-declension adjective.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

(See also retundus, *torundus.)

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: rodundu, orrudundu (both medieval)
• North Italian:
  • Lombard: rodond
  • Romansch: rodund
• Gallo-Romance:
  • >? Old Catalan: rodon (if not from retundus, with later assimilation)
    • Catalan: rodó
  • Old Franco-Provençal: raond
  • Old French: roont, ruunt
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: urtundë
• Later borrowings:
  • → Catalan: rotund
  • → English: rotund
  • → French: rotond
  • → Italian: rotondo
  • → Portuguese: rotundo
  • → Romanian: rotund
  • → Spanish: rotundo

参照

Further reading

• “rotundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rotundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rotundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette