different between rotunda vs arcade

English

Alternative forms

• (typography): Rotunda

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotunda, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon), from rotundus (“round”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??(?)?t?nd?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o??t?nd?/
• Hyphenation: ro?tun?da

Noun

rotunda (plural rotundas)

2. (architecture) a round building, usually small, often with a dome
4. (typography, frequently capitalized) A Gothic typeface used in early printed books in Northern Italy, based on a rounded script developed in the 13th cent.; the manuscript hand on which this typeface was based
5. (Philippines) A roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
6. (geometry) A form of cupola that has pentagons rather than squares or rectangles

Derived terms

• band rotunda

Translations

Anagrams

• toundra

Catalan

Adjective

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotund

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ro?tun?da

Noun

rotunda

1. a roundabout; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rotunda]
• Rhymes: -unda

Noun

rotunda f

1. rotunda (building)

Related terms

• See rotor

Further reading

• rotunda in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rotunda in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rotund?/, [?ro?t?und?]
• Rhymes: -otund?
• Syllabification: ro?tun?da

Noun

rotunda

1. rotunda

Declension

Latin

Adjective

rotunda

1. nominative feminine singular of rotundus
2. nominative neuter plural of rotundus
3. accusative neuter plural of rotundus
4. vocative feminine singular of rotundus

Adjective

rotund?

1. ablative feminine singular of rotundus

References

• rotunda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Adjective

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?tunda/, [ro?t??n?.d?a]

Adjective

rotunda

1. feminine singular of rotundo

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

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