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From Middle English rondel, from Old French rondel, a diminutive of ronde, the feminine of ront, reont (“round (in shape)”), from Latin rotundus (“round, circular; spherical”), related to rota (“wheel”).

rondel (plural rondels)

  1. A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
  2. The verse form rondeau.
  3. A rondelle, (small) circular object.
  4. (historical) A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
  5. (historical) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

long thin medieval dagger

rondel oblique singular, m (oblique plural rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative singular rondeaus or rondeax or rondiaus or rondiax or rondels, nominative plural rondel)

  1. circular or round object
  2. rondel; type of poem

Borrowed from French rondelle.

rondel m inan (diminutive rondelek)

  2. pan, saucepan (deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces)
    Hypernym: garnek
  4. (historical, military) barbican (tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town)
    Synonym: barbakan
  • rondel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • rondel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • rondel in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Italian rondello or French rondel.

rondel n (plural rondeluri)

  1. rondel

rondel m (plural rondeles)

  1. rondel (poem)