different between rondelle vs rondelet

English

Alternative forms

• rondel

Etymology

From French rondelle. Doublet of redondilla.

Noun

rondelle (plural rondelles)

1. A small circular object.
2. One of the successive crusts formed on molten metal as it cools.

   Synonym: rosette

Anagrams

• enrolled

French

Etymology

rond +? -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.d?l/

Noun

rondelle f (plural rondelles)

1. (ice hockey) hockey puck
2. ring or annulus
3. disk; washer
4. onion ring
5. slice
6. (vulgar) asshole (anus)

Derived terms

• péter la rondelle

Descendants

• ? English: rondelle
• ? German: Rondell
• ? Italian: rondella
• ? Polish: rondel
• ? Spanish: arandela (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “rondelle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lle

Noun

rondelle f

1. plural of rondella

English

Etymology

Middle French rondelet

Noun

rondelet (plural rondelets)

1. A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables

Related terms

• rondel, rondelle
• roundel
• roundelay

Anagrams

• Del Norte, redolent

French

Etymology

From rondel +? -et. Rondel has become rondeau in Modern French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.dl?/

Adjective

rondelet (feminine singular rondelette, masculine plural rondelets, feminine plural rondelettes)

1. quite round; roundish
2. (by extension) large, hefty, significant

Further reading

• “rondelet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

rondel +? -et

Noun

rondelet m (plural rondelez)

1. A roundelay, certain metric verse from