orotund

From Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth”) hence “clear, loud”, from ōs (“mouth”) + rotundus (“round”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔːɹətʌnd/

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orotund (comparative more orotund, superlative most orotund)

1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
2. Pompous; bombastic.
   • 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa:

     In orotund turns of phrase—indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase--the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance.

   • 2004 October 31, Anthony Quinn, “'The Line of Beauty': The Last Good Summer”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     […] the half-facetious, half-adoring tributes Nick pays to his famously orotund late style, the "plums of periphrasis" Nick likes to slip into his conversation.

• (fullness of sound): sonorous; see also Thesaurus:sonorous
• (pompous): pompous; see also Thesaurus:arrogant

• oral

• rotundo, round to