r rotunda

短语

发音

UK /ˌɑː.ɹəʊˈtʌn.də/
US /ˌɑɹ.ɹoʊˈtʌn.də/

词形变化

rs rotunda 复数 rs rotundae 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.

    媒体 印刷

    […] completely informed about the decisions made and the reasons to make them, e.g. r rotunda does not figure in the transcription as the use of straight r and r rotunda is governed by the preceding character and thus completely predictable.

词源

From or representing Latin r rotunda (literally “round ‘r’”). The adjective rotunda is the feminine form of rotundus, inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is little attested in Latin, and might have been formed in English, or been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.

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