orotundとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).

The noun is derived from the adjective.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒɹə(ʊ)tʌnd/, /ˈɔː-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɔɹə(ʊ)ˌtʌnd/
• ハイフネーション: or‧o‧tund

形容詞

orotund (comparative more orotund, superlative most orotund)

1. Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.

   (of a voice): Synonyms: ore rotundo, resonant, rotund; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

2. (by extension)
   1. Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
   2. (derogatory) Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.

      Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tumid, turgid

      • 1990, Robert Klitgaard, “Beginning to Move”, in Tropical Gangsters: One Man’s Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa, New York, N.Y.: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 124:

        A series of U.N. and government officials spoke. And spoke. And spoke. Their words were grand, their sentences endless. 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 [book review]”, in The New York Times Book Review‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 October 2023:

        He would also, you can't help thinking, have approved [Alan] Hollinghurst's discriminating eye and perhaps even enjoyed 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.

      • 2014 August 15, Steven Pinker, “Reference and languages books: Steven Pinker: 10 ‘grammar rules’ it’s OK to break (sometimes)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 March 2023:

        When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" […] The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom". First, "whom" has long been perceived as formal verging on pompous. Second, the rules for its proper use are obscure to many speakers, tempting them to drop "whom" into their speech whenever they want to sound posh.

        Appeared in print in the Review section (issue 52,240) on 16 August 2014, page 4, column 3.

派生語

• ororotundity (obsolete, rare)
• orotundity
• orotundly

関連する語

• oral
• ore rotundo
• rotund

名詞

orotund (countable and uncountable, plural orotunds) (obsolete)

1. (countable) A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound.
2. (uncountable) The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in speech or writing.

参照

アナグラム

• rotundo, round to