English word round comes from Proto-Indo-European *rot-, Proto-Indo-European *Hret-, Latin retundus, Latin -undus, Old French rotundus, and later Italian ritondo ((archaic) roundness, rotundity (archaic).)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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*rot- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | wheel |
*Hret- | Proto-Indo-European (ine) | |
retundus | Latin (lat) | |
-undus | Latin (lat) | Derives adjective nouns from verbs, similar to present participles, but without the present time restriction. |
rotundus | Old French (fro) | |
rota | Latin (lat) | (figuratively) the disc of the sun. (pars pro toto) a car, a chariot. Wheel. |
rotare | Latin (lat) | |
rotundus | Latin (lat) | (figuratively) rounded, perfect. (figuratively, of speech) polished, elegant. (substantive) A sphere. Round, circular. Spherical, rotund. |
ritondo | Italian (it) | (archaic) roundness, rotundity (archaic). |
*retundus | Vulgar Latin (la-vul) | |
*rodond | Old French (fro) | |
round | English (en) | (intransitive) To approximate a number, especially a decimal number by the closest whole number.. (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.. (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).. (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.. (obsolete, intransitive) To go or turn round; to wheel about.. (obsolete, intransitive) To go round, as a guard; to make the rounds.. [...] |