rondo

See also: rondó and rondò

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒndəʊ
• Homophone: rondeau

Noun

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

1. (music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
2. (countable) A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.
3. (countable) A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.
4. (soccer) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.
   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation.

5. (obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.

Translations

musical composition

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迴旋曲 / 回旋曲 (zh) (huíxuánqǔ)

• Finnish: rondo (fi)
• Irish: rondó m
• Russian: ро́ндо (ru) n (róndo)
• Spanish: rondó (es) m

small disk-shaped piece of food

dark-skinned hybrid variety of grape

• Finnish: rondo (fi)

soccer: training game

• French: rondo (fr) m
• Galician: rondo m
• German: Rondo (de) n
• Italian: torello (it) m
• Portuguese: bobinho (pt) m, roda de bobinho f, rodinha de bobo f
• Spanish: rondo (es) m

Anagrams

• Noord, donor

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrondo/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ron‧do
• Rhymes: -ondo

Noun

rondo (accusative singular rondon, plural rondoj, accusative plural rondojn)

1. circle (as in a group of people)
   • 1891, “La Espero”, L. L. Zamenhof (lyrics):

     Sur neŭtrala lingva fundamento,
     komprenante unu la alian,
     la popoloj faros en konsento
     unu grandan rondon familian.

     On a neutral language basis,
     understanding one another,
     the people will make in agreement
     one great family circle.

Derived terms

• rondoplaco

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

rondo m (plural rondos)

1. (music) rondo

Further reading

• “rondo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of raun, ronda, and ronde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɔnd̪o]
• Hyphenation: ron‧do

Noun

rondo (uncountable)

1. (music) rondo: a musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

Further reading

• “rondo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

rondo (invariable)

1. (music) rondò

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French rondeau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔn.dɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔndɔ
• Syllabification: ron‧do

Noun

rondo n (diminutive rondko)

1. roundabout, traffic circle
2. brim of a hat
3. (music) rondo
4. (poetry) rondeau

Declension

Declension of rondo

	singular	plural
nominative	rondo	ronda
genitive	ronda	rond
dative	rondu	rondom
accusative	rondo	ronda
instrumental	rondem	rondami
locative	rondzie	rondach
vocative	rondo	ronda

Derived terms

adjective

• rondowy

 

noun

• rondówka

 

Further reading

• rondo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rondo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Southern Ndebele

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans rond.

Relative

-rondo^?

1. round

Inflection

Relative concord
	Modifier	Copulative
1st singular	engirondo	ngirondo
2nd singular	orondo	urondo
1st plural	esirondo	sirondo
2nd plural	enirondo	nirondo
Class 1	orondo	urondo
Class 2	abarondo	barondo
Class 3	orondo	urondo
Class 4	erondo	irondo
Class 5	elirondo	lirondo
Class 6	arondo	arondo
Class 7	esirondo	sirondo
Class 8	ezirondo	zirondo
Class 9	erondo	irondo
Class 10	ezirondo	zirondo
Class 14	oburondo	burondo
Class 15	okurondo	kurondo
Class 17	okurondo	kurondo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrondo/ [ˈrõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: ron‧do

Etymology 1

Noun

rondo m (plural rondos)

1. (soccer) rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle

Etymology 2

Verb

rondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rondar