rondel

English

Alternative forms

• rondelle (uncommon in the musical or poetic senses)
• (dagger): roundel

Etymology

From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).

Noun

rondel (plural rondels)

1. A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
2. The verse form rondeau.
3. A rondelle, (small) circular object.
4. (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
5. (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Synonyms

• roundel

Related terms

• rondelet
• rondle
• rondo
• roundelay
• roundlet

Translations

rondeau — see rondeau

long thin medieval dagger

Danish: rondeldolk c French: dague à rouelles f German: Scheibendolch m Italian: daga a rondelle f Lithuanian: rondelis m Polish: sztylet tarczkowy m Spanish: daga rondel f

Anagrams

• Lorden, Nolder, rondle

Old French

Noun

rondel oblique singular, m (oblique plural rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative singular rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative plural rondel)

1. circular or round object
2. rondel; type of poem

Descendants

• Middle French: rondel, rondeau
  • French: rondel, rondeau, ⇒ rondelle (see there for further descendants)
    • → Romanian: rondel
  • → Italian: rondello
  • → Middle English: rondel, rundell, roundel, roundell
    • English: rondel, roundel, roundell, roundle
  • → Spanish: rondel

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

rondel

Wikipedia ^pl

rondel sense 1

rondel sense 2

Etymology

Borrowed from French rondelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔn.dɛl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔndɛl
• Syllabification: ron‧del

Noun

rondel m inan (diminutive rondelek)

2. pan, saucepan (deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces)

   Hypernym: garnek

4. (historical, military) barbican (tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town)

   Synonym: barbakan

Declension

Declension of rondel

	singular	plural
nominative	rondel	rondle
genitive	rondla	rondli
dative	rondlowi	rondlom
accusative	rondel	rondle
instrumental	rondlem	rondlami
locative	rondlu	rondlach
vocative	rondlu	rondle

Descendants

• → Ukrainian: ро́ндель (róndelʹ)

Further reading

• rondel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rondel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• rondel in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rondello or French rondel.

Noun

rondel n (plural rondeluri)

1. rondel

Declension

Declension of rondel

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rondel	rondelul		rondeluri	rondelurile
genitive-dative	rondel	rondelului		rondeluri	rondelurilor
vocative	rondelule			rondelurilor

Spanish

Noun

rondel m (plural rondeles)

1. rondel (poem)

Further reading

• “rondel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024