different between rotund vs burly

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotundus (“round”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *ret- (“to run, to roll”) . Doublet of round, which arrived through Old French/Anglo-Norman.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????t?nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o??t?nd/

Adjective

rotund (comparative rotunder, superlative rotundest)

1. Having a round, spherical or curved shape; circular; orbicular.
   • 1992, Hal R. Varian, Microeconomic Analysis (3rd ed.), W.?W. Norton & Company, Inc., ?ISBN, p. 96–97

     Convex preferences may have indifference curves that exhibit “flat spots,” while strictly convex preferences have indifference curves that are strictly rotund.

2. Having a round body shape; portly or plump; podgy.
3. (of a sound) Full and rich; orotund; sonorous; full-toned.

Synonyms

• (having a round body shape): chubby, tubby; see also Thesaurus:overweight
• (full and rich sound): booming, resounding; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “rotund”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• Notes:

Anagrams

• untrod

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotundus, attested from 1917. Compare the inherited doublet rodó.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ru?tunt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ru?tun/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ro?tunt/

Adjective

rotund (feminine rotunda, masculine plural rotunds, feminine plural rotundes)

1. emphatic
2. complete, flat out, downright

Derived terms

• rotundament

Further reading

• “rotund” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rotund” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rotund” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Romanian

Alternative forms

• r?tund (regional, dated)

Etymology

From Latin rotundus (“round”), possibly through a Vulgar Latin form retundus, especially in the case of the variant form, r?tund, which was the original form (compare Spanish and Portuguese redondo, archaic Italian ritondo (standard rotondo), Occitan redond, Catalan redó (variant of standard rodó), French rond (Old French reont)). The current standard form of the word may simply be a natural evolution from the older form in southern Romania.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?tund/

Adjective

rotund m or n (feminine singular rotund?, masculine plural rotunzi, feminine and neuter plural rotunde)

1. round

Declension

Derived terms

• rotunji

References

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??li/

• Rhymes: -??(r)li

Etymology 1

From Middle English burly, burely, borly, burlich, borlich, borlic (“tall, stately”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots burely, burly (“rough, stout, sturdy, strong”). Perhaps from Old English *b?rl?? (“noble, stately”, literally “bowerly”), equivalent to bower +? -ly; or from Old English *byrl?? (“high, raised”), from byre (“raised area, mound”), cognate with Old High German burl?h, purl?h (“lofty, elevated, high, exalted”), related to Old High German burjan (“to raise, lift, push up”). See burgeon.

Alternative forms

• bowerly (dialectal)

Adjective

burly (comparative burlier, superlative burliest)

1. (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

2. (Britain, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.

3. (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.

Translations

Etymology 2

burl +? -y

Adjective

burly (comparative more burly, superlative most burly)

1. Full of burls or knots; knotty.

Middle English

Adjective

burly

1. Alternative form of burely