tondo

From Italian tondo, from ritondo, rotondo (“round”), from Latin rotundus. Doublet of round.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɒndoʊ/

tondo (plural tondos or tondi)

1. A round picture or other work of art.
   • 1983, Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 135:

     As the ellipse becomes longer and flatter, it takes on the qualities of the rectangle. Even more than the tondo, the oval is a playful shape, prescribed by the demands of the setting it bedecks rather than those of the composition it encloses.

   • 2014, François Lissarrague, The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet: Images of Wine and Ritual, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     In the tondo of a cup in the Louvre we see a young slave, a pais, dip an oenochoe into a garlanded krater; he is holding a cup in the other hand and is about to serve drinks (fig. 20).” By isolating this detail, the painter implies all the aspects of a […]

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From Italian tondo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtondo/, [ˈt̪o̞ndo̞]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification^(key): ton‧do

tondo

1. (art) tondo

From Vulgar Latin *tundus, back-derived from Late Latin retundus, whence older Italian ritondo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈton.do/
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Hyphenation: tón‧do

tondo (feminine tonda, masculine plural tondi, feminine plural tonde)

1. round, circular

   Synonyms: rotondo, (archaic) ritondo

2. (figurative) exactly, precisely

tondo m (plural tondi)

1. circle
2. (art) tondo (round picture or other work of art)

• in tondo
• girotondo
• tondi

Unadapted borrowing from Italian tondo.

tondo n (plural tondouri)

1. tondo