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rondo en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian rondò, itself an unadapted borrowing of French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau; see there for further etymology.

Meanings

  1. (countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
  2. (countable) A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.
  3. (countable) A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.
    • And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation. 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
  5. (obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.

Forms

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Translations (14)

it torello (soccer: training game) · de Rondo (soccer: training game) · pt bobinho (soccer: training game) · pt rodinha de bobo (soccer: training game) · es rondo (soccer: training game) · pt roda de bobinho (soccer: training game) · gl rondo (soccer: training game) · fi rondo (dark-skinned hybrid variety of grape) · es rondó (musical composition) · cmn 迴旋曲 /回旋曲 (musical composition) · fr rondo (soccer: training game) · ru ро́ндо (musical composition) · fi rondo (musical composition) · ga rondó (musical composition)