different between rondel vs rondle

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle English roundel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront (“circular”), probably originally *redond, from Latin rotundus (“like a wheel, circular, round”), 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. A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
5. A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

Synonyms

• roundel

Related terms

• rondelet
• rondo
• roundelay
• roundlet

Translations

Anagrams

• Lorden, Nolder, rondle

Old French

Noun

rondel 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

• English: rondel, rondeau (via French)
• French: rondeau

Polish

Etymology

From French rondelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?n.d?l/

Noun

rondel m inan (diminutive rondelek)

1. pan, saucepan
2. (historical, architecture) barbican

   Synonym: barbakan

Declension

Further reading

• rondel in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rondel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

Compare rondel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nd?l/

Noun

rondle (plural rondles)

1. (obsolete) A rondeau.
2. (obsolete) A round mass, plate, or disk, especially the crust or scale that forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
3. (obsolete) A round or rung; a step of a ladder.

Anagrams

• Lorden, Nolder, rondel