Etymology

rotunda

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Today it means: A round building, usually small, often with a dome. Full definition →

Latin rotunda
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromrotunda
  2. English todayrotunda

Learned borrowing from Latin rotunda, from rotundus (“round”). In the architectural sense, from Sancta Maria Rotunda (the name for a church in the Pantheon).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.