rotundityn.

Brit.

/rə(ʊ)ˈtʌndᵻti/, U.S.

/roʊˈtəndədi/

Forms: late Middle English rotundite, 1500s rotunditie, 1500s rotunditye, 1600s– rotundity.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rotondité; Latin rotunditāt-, rotunditās.

Etymology: < Middle French rotondité, rotundité round mass or object (1314 in Old French; French rotondité , also in sense ‘corpulence’ (1697)) and its etymon classical Latin rotunditāt-, rotunditās roundness of form, in post-classical Latin also rounded style (5th cent.), round part of a bone (1363 in Chauliac) < rotundus rotund adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Catalan rotunditat (14th cent.), Spanish rotundidad (1493 in a translation of Chauliac), Italian rotondita (a1292).

a. A round or spherical mass or extent; a globe, a sphere; a round object, construction, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > a circle, ring, or sphere

trendlea900

roundnessa1382

compassc1384

rotundity?a1425

rundlea1425

rondure1609

rotundant1661

rotund1729

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular object

trendlea900

appleeOE

ballc1300

roundc1330

bowl1413

rotundity?a1425

spherea1425

pomec1440

globec1450

orba1500

rotund1550

roundel1589

pompom1748

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 53^v (MED) Þer is one bone..fulle off marye, and it is rounde on boþe endes, þe ouer rotundite oþer roundenes..enterþe the boxe oþer þe hole of þe schulder and maken þe ioynte off þe schulder.

1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Ciij^v Vpon her lap a greene-scal'd Serpent lies, Whose hugenesse fils her wide rotunditye.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. xxiii. 190 The contraction of a visible Object upon a Rotundity.

1688 A. Pitfield tr. C. Perrault Mem. Nat. Hist. Animals 109 This transparent Part had at the extremity a little head or rotundity, which was the root.

1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 58 This huge rotundity we tread grows old.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 211 The shrine where motion first began,..From whence each bright rotundity was hurl'd.

1819 W. Faux Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 95 Dr. Storton's chapel, an immense, elegant rotundity, like Rowland Hill's in the Surrey road.

1868 S. P. Hawthorne Passages from Amer. Note-bks. of Nathaniel Hawthorne II. 76 The crook-necked winter-squash..turns up its big rotundity to ripen in the autumn sun.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. i. iii. 49 The contour appears not five-cornered, but seven-cornered—or else, only consists in a formless massive rotundity.

2000 Observer (Nexis) 30 Apr. (Escape section) 12 These polychrome rotundities were greeted with horror by sober citizens when they went up in the 1970s.

b. The quality, condition, or fact of being round or spherical in shape; roundness, sphericality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun]

roundnessa1387

rotunditya1513

roundure1600

globiness1611

orbicularness1611

rotundness1727

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity

rotunditya1513

globosity1577

sphericity1625

sphericalness1644

orbicularity1653

globulousness1665

sphericality1669

globularness1715

globularity1750

burl1876

spherality1890

bulbosity1901

a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1990) III. 22 Þe breid þat befor was þar vnder þe quhitnes Rotundite and quantite is nocht þar eftir na ȝit in the waurld..the breid is turnit in the body of ihesu.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 30^v There ought to runne no small, but round tendons, which with their magnitude, and rotunditie, fulfill the flattenes so on that side, that the fourme of the fingers is..left round.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. ii. iii. f. 10^v/1 The heade,..the rotunditye & rowndnes therof.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxv. 465 Which in the beginning gaue rotundity both to the Heauens & Sunne.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 85 Some bring in another rotundity of face.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ii. 131 Gold..having no innate Fluidity, nor natural Rotundity of Particles.

1756 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Foundery of Bells The core..is made of bricks, breaking the corners without to give the masonry its exact rotundity.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 52 Large tracts, which are probably concealed from view from the rotundity of the lake's surface.

1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/2 A great heater, with its ample rotundity and glowing heart..stood there.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 58/1 The top-heavy rotundity of the champagne glass.

1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 9 In Hemithyris this marginal sinuation has no effect on the rotundity of the outline.

2001 S. Drake Galileo iii. 54 Why such perfect rotundity was required in celestial bodies.

2. With reference to an immaterial thing: the quality or fact of being full, complete, or well-balanced in nature or character; esp. elegance or grandiloquence of language or literary style (cf. rotund adj. 2).In quot. 1655: = roundness n. 7.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > loftiness or grandiloquence

magnificence1481

stateliness1550

sublimity1581

grandiloquence1589

sublimenessa1599

magniloquency1615

magniloquence1623

elevationa1639

rotundity1655

grandiloquy1656

magniloquy1656

grandeur1657

loftiness1663

magnificentness1727

altiloquence1775

grandiosity1801

grandioso1816

grandiloquent1829

ororotundity1831

ororotundoism1840

orotundity1909

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 7 For the more rotundity of the number, and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand.

1680 J. Davies tr. R. Rapin Instr. for Hist. x. 37 Thucydides..has some harshnesses which render him obscure; and he is less remarkable for Numerousness and Rotundity than Herodotus.

1784 W. Hayley Mausoleum i, in Plays 372 Their ideas have nothing of height and profundity, Their conceptions want vigor, their periods rotundity.

1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 245 In order to give their narrative smoothness and rotundity.

1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. ii. 108 In order to give due rotundity to his grand system.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xli. 337 He began..with true legal rotundity of verbiage.

1922 N. Coward Terribly Intimate Portraits 104 Brampenrich describes the scene for us, so beautifully and with such truly exquisite rotundity of style.

1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 Mar. a12 Repetition apparently cannot wither the eagerness of a throne speech's vision, or flatten the rotundity of its rhetoric.

a. Roundness or plumpness of the body or a part of the body; an example of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having

fatnessc1000

greasea1340

corsiousnessc1440

fleshiness1541

plumpness1545

corporateness1547

fogginess1547

fleshliness1552

corpulency1577

corpulence1581

corsiness1587

fullness1599

obesity1611

pinguitude1623

obeseness1653

aletude1656

portliness1658

eventriqueness1667

rotundity1684

fat1726

rotundness1727

bloatedness1732

embonpoint1751

roundness1763

repleteness1770

plumpitude1828

corporosity1837

stoutness1838

crumb1843

plumptitude1843

roundedness1849

chubbiness1850

adiposeness1868

roundliness1870

buxomness1875

bloat1905

tubbiness1906

poundage1915

overweight1917

endomorphy1940

plumpishness1947

pudge1967

morbid obesity1969

1684 tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Trav. Terra Australis Incognita 16 The more that each mans Rotundity is found to be inlarged, unto the higher place he is presently Advanced.

1728 Characters of Times 19 He may be justly call'd a Martyr to Obesity, and to have fallen a Victim to the Rotundity of his Parts.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 35 The cursed Indian, who still preserved his rotundity of figure.

1817 J. Watkins Mem. R. B. Sheridan ix. 311 This contrast between the thin and spare form of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the jolly rotundity of his lordship, produced full effect.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. x. 127 Her plump neck, shoulders, and arms..looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of the faultless rotundities of a lusty country girl.

1926 Spectator 24 Apr. 753/1 One can imagine an indignant Cockney ejaculating as he regarded the rotundity of the Red goalee.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 418 Mr. Joseph Wade, his rotundity made even more striking by the two capes..he had evidently thought fitting to wear over shooting clothes.

1991 N. de Lange tr. A. Oz To know Woman (1992) iii. 12 One could see the first signs in Abigail of a tendency to rotundity and a Slavic ruddiness.

b. A plump or rounded part of the body; a plump, fleshy person or animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having

porknellc1540

porkling1541

porridge belly1580

tallow catch1598

woolsack1598

candle-mine1600

trillibub1600

bauson1607

panguts1617

firkin1630

porker1665

poke pudding1706

pudsy1710

jolluxa1797

fatty1797

fattener1817

rotundity1824

tun-butt1829

stout party1855

pig1858

fatlinga1861

slob1861

bladder of lard1864

butterball1877

lard-bladder1891

jelly-belly1896

tub1897

barrel1909

flop1909

pussy-gut1909

gutbucket1919

Billy Bunter1939

endomorph1940

Fatso1944

slug1959

1824 Family Oracle of Health 1 309 Turtle and turbot and ambrosial liquors are in fact their commonest fare, and it appears most gloriously on their bright faces and ample rotundities.

1826 Niles' Reg. 19 Aug. 425/1 To say nothing of the fatness of the bishops and other dignified rotundities.

1872 Appleton's Jrnl. 9 Mar. 259/1 Her clothes clung to her body, and revealed rotundities of person which elderly ladies' dress is expressly calculated to conceal.

a1892 G. H. Kingsley Notes Sport & Trav. (1900) v. 425 That this cumbrous rotundity [sc. an orca] may attack a wounded whale is likely enough.

1948 M. Deasy Hour of Spring xv. 183 A stout new gentleman in a new suit, with a new gold watch chain across his newly acquired rotundities.

1991 A. Brookner Closed Eye ii. 14 His delightful rotundities spoke of the care which he devoted to his diet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rotundity
释义	rotundityn. Brit. /rə(ʊ)ˈtʌndᵻti/, U.S. /roʊˈtəndədi/ Forms: late Middle English rotundite, 1500s rotunditie, 1500s rotunditye, 1600s– rotundity. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French rotondité; Latin rotunditāt-, rotunditās. Etymology: < Middle French rotondité, rotundité round mass or object (1314 in Old French; French rotondité , also in sense ‘corpulence’ (1697)) and its etymon classical Latin rotunditāt-, rotunditās roundness of form, in post-classical Latin also rounded style (5th cent.), round part of a bone (1363 in Chauliac) < rotundus rotund adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Catalan rotunditat (14th cent.), Spanish rotundidad (1493 in a translation of Chauliac), Italian rotondita (a1292). 1. a. A round or spherical mass or extent; a globe, a sphere; a round object, construction, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > a circle, ring, or sphere trendlea900 roundnessa1382 compassc1384 rotundity?a1425 rundlea1425 rondure1609 rotundant1661 rotund1729 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular object trendlea900 appleeOE ballc1300 roundc1330 bowl1413 rotundity?a1425 spherea1425 pomec1440 globec1450 orba1500 rotund1550 roundel1589 pompom1748 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 53^v (MED) Þer is one bone..fulle off marye, and it is rounde on boþe endes, þe ouer rotundite oþer roundenes..enterþe the boxe oþer þe hole of þe schulder and maken þe ioynte off þe schulder. 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Ciij^v Vpon her lap a greene-scal'd Serpent lies, Whose hugenesse fils her wide rotunditye. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. ii. xxiii. 190 The contraction of a visible Object upon a Rotundity. 1688 A. Pitfield tr. C. Perrault Mem. Nat. Hist. Animals 109 This transparent Part had at the extremity a little head or rotundity, which was the root. 1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 58 This huge rotundity we tread grows old. 1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 211 The shrine where motion first began,..From whence each bright rotundity was hurl'd. 1819 W. Faux Jrnl. 16 Oct. in Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 95 Dr. Storton's chapel, an immense, elegant rotundity, like Rowland Hill's in the Surrey road. 1868 S. P. Hawthorne Passages from Amer. Note-bks. of Nathaniel Hawthorne II. 76 The crook-necked winter-squash..turns up its big rotundity to ripen in the autumn sun. 1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. i. iii. 49 The contour appears not five-cornered, but seven-cornered—or else, only consists in a formless massive rotundity. 2000 Observer (Nexis) 30 Apr. (Escape section) 12 These polychrome rotundities were greeted with horror by sober citizens when they went up in the 1970s. b. The quality, condition, or fact of being round or spherical in shape; roundness, sphericality. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] roundnessa1387 rotunditya1513 roundure1600 globiness1611 orbicularness1611 rotundness1727 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity rotunditya1513 globosity1577 sphericity1625 sphericalness1644 orbicularity1653 globulousness1665 sphericality1669 globularness1715 globularity1750 burl1876 spherality1890 bulbosity1901 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1990) III. 22 Þe breid þat befor was þar vnder þe quhitnes Rotundite and quantite is nocht þar eftir na ȝit in the waurld..the breid is turnit in the body of ihesu. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 30^v There ought to runne no small, but round tendons, which with their magnitude, and rotunditie, fulfill the flattenes so on that side, that the fourme of the fingers is..left round. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. ii. iii. f. 10^v/1 The heade,..the rotunditye & rowndnes therof. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xii. xxv. 465 Which in the beginning gaue rotundity both to the Heauens & Sunne. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 85 Some bring in another rotundity of face. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. ii. 131 Gold..having no innate Fluidity, nor natural Rotundity of Particles. 1756 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Foundery of Bells The core..is made of bricks, breaking the corners without to give the masonry its exact rotundity. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 52 Large tracts, which are probably concealed from view from the rotundity of the lake's surface. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 45/2 A great heater, with its ample rotundity and glowing heart..stood there. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 58/1 The top-heavy rotundity of the champagne glass. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) i. 9 In Hemithyris this marginal sinuation has no effect on the rotundity of the outline. 2001 S. Drake Galileo iii. 54 Why such perfect rotundity was required in celestial bodies. 2. With reference to an immaterial thing: the quality or fact of being full, complete, or well-balanced in nature or character; esp. elegance or grandiloquence of language or literary style (cf. rotund adj. 2).In quot. 1655: = roundness n. 7. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > loftiness or grandiloquence magnificence1481 stateliness1550 sublimity1581 grandiloquence1589 sublimenessa1599 magniloquency1615 magniloquence1623 elevationa1639 rotundity1655 grandiloquy1656 magniloquy1656 grandeur1657 loftiness1663 magnificentness1727 altiloquence1775 grandiosity1801 grandioso1816 grandiloquent1829 ororotundity1831 ororotundoism1840 orotundity1909 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 7 For the more rotundity of the number, and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. 1680 J. Davies tr. R. Rapin Instr. for Hist. x. 37 Thucydides..has some harshnesses which render him obscure; and he is less remarkable for Numerousness and Rotundity than Herodotus. 1784 W. Hayley Mausoleum i, in Plays 372 Their ideas have nothing of height and profundity, Their conceptions want vigor, their periods rotundity. 1803 Edinb. Rev. 2 245 In order to give their narrative smoothness and rotundity. 1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. ii. 108 In order to give due rotundity to his grand system. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xli. 337 He began..with true legal rotundity of verbiage. 1922 N. Coward Terribly Intimate Portraits 104 Brampenrich describes the scene for us, so beautifully and with such truly exquisite rotundity of style. 1997 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 25 Mar. a12 Repetition apparently cannot wither the eagerness of a throne speech's vision, or flatten the rotundity of its rhetoric. 3. a. Roundness or plumpness of the body or a part of the body; an example of this. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having fatnessc1000 greasea1340 corsiousnessc1440 fleshiness1541 plumpness1545 corporateness1547 fogginess1547 fleshliness1552 corpulency1577 corpulence1581 corsiness1587 fullness1599 obesity1611 pinguitude1623 obeseness1653 aletude1656 portliness1658 eventriqueness1667 rotundity1684 fat1726 rotundness1727 bloatedness1732 embonpoint1751 roundness1763 repleteness1770 plumpitude1828 corporosity1837 stoutness1838 crumb1843 plumptitude1843 roundedness1849 chubbiness1850 adiposeness1868 roundliness1870 buxomness1875 bloat1905 tubbiness1906 poundage1915 overweight1917 endomorphy1940 plumpishness1947 pudge1967 morbid obesity1969 1684 tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Trav. Terra Australis Incognita 16 The more that each mans Rotundity is found to be inlarged, unto the higher place he is presently Advanced. 1728 Characters of Times 19 He may be justly call'd a Martyr to Obesity, and to have fallen a Victim to the Rotundity of his Parts. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 35 The cursed Indian, who still preserved his rotundity of figure. 1817 J. Watkins Mem. R. B. Sheridan ix. 311 This contrast between the thin and spare form of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the jolly rotundity of his lordship, produced full effect. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. x. 127 Her plump neck, shoulders, and arms..looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of the faultless rotundities of a lusty country girl. 1926 Spectator 24 Apr. 753/1 One can imagine an indignant Cockney ejaculating as he regarded the rotundity of the Red goalee. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill xii. 418 Mr. Joseph Wade, his rotundity made even more striking by the two capes..he had evidently thought fitting to wear over shooting clothes. 1991 N. de Lange tr. A. Oz To know Woman (1992) iii. 12 One could see the first signs in Abigail of a tendency to rotundity and a Slavic ruddiness. b. A plump or rounded part of the body; a plump, fleshy person or animal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having porknellc1540 porkling1541 porridge belly1580 tallow catch1598 woolsack1598 candle-mine1600 trillibub1600 bauson1607 panguts1617 firkin1630 porker1665 poke pudding1706 pudsy1710 jolluxa1797 fatty1797 fattener1817 rotundity1824 tun-butt1829 stout party1855 pig1858 fatlinga1861 slob1861 bladder of lard1864 butterball1877 lard-bladder1891 jelly-belly1896 tub1897 barrel1909 flop1909 pussy-gut1909 gutbucket1919 Billy Bunter1939 endomorph1940 Fatso1944 slug1959 1824 Family Oracle of Health 1 309 Turtle and turbot and ambrosial liquors are in fact their commonest fare, and it appears most gloriously on their bright faces and ample rotundities. 1826 Niles' Reg. 19 Aug. 425/1 To say nothing of the fatness of the bishops and other dignified rotundities. 1872 Appleton's Jrnl. 9 Mar. 259/1 Her clothes clung to her body, and revealed rotundities of person which elderly ladies' dress is expressly calculated to conceal. a1892 G. H. Kingsley Notes Sport & Trav. (1900) v. 425 That this cumbrous rotundity [sc. an orca] may attack a wounded whale is likely enough. 1948 M. Deasy Hour of Spring xv. 183 A stout new gentleman in a new suit, with a new gold watch chain across his newly acquired rotundities. 1991 A. Brookner Closed Eye ii. 14 His delightful rotundities spoke of the care which he devoted to his diet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425
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