rondo

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒndəʊ
• Homophone: rondeau

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

1. (music, 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. (soccer) 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.
   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎:

     And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation.

5. (obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.

• Noord, donor

• IPA^(key): /ˈrondo/

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• Hyphenation: ron‧do
• Rhymes: -ondo

rondo (accusative singular rondon, plural rondoj, accusative plural rondojn)

1. circle (as in a group of people)

• rondoplaco

rondo m (plural rondos)

1. (music) rondo

• “rondo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of raun, ronda, and ronde.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɔnd̪o]
• Hyphenation: ron‧do

rondo (first-person possessive rondoku, second-person possessive rondomu, third-person possessive rondonya)

1. (music) rondo: a musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

• “rondo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

rondo (invariable)

1. (music) rondò

Borrowed from French rondeau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔn.dɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔndɔ
• Syllabification: ron‧do

rondo n (diminutive rondko)

1. roundabout, traffic circle
2. brim of a hat
3. (music) rondo
4. (poetry) rondeau

• rondo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rondo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Afrikaans rond.

-rondo^?

1. round

• IPA^(key): /ˈrondo/ [ˈrõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: ron‧do

rondo m (plural rondos)

1. (soccer) rondo; keep-away, piggy in the middle

rondo

1. first-person singular present indicative of rondar