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noun
1.
a round building, especially one with a dome.
2.
a large and high circular hall or room in a building, especially one surmounted by a dome.
Origin:
1680–90; alteration of Italian rotonda, noun use of feminine of rotondo < Latin rotundus rotund
1680–90; alteration of Italian rotonda, noun use of feminine of rotondo < Latin rotundus rotund
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Word Origin & History
rotunda
"round building," 1687, from It. rotonda, especially the Pantheon, from L. rotunda, fem. of rotundus "round" (see rotund). Meaning "circular hall or room within a building" is from 1780.
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