r rotunda

Meanings

1. A curved form of the letter r, found in some medieval and fraktur scripts: ⟨ ꝛ ⟩.

Etymology

From or representing Latin r rotunda (literally “round ‘r’”). The adjective rotunda is the feminine form of rotundus, inflected to agree with littera (“letter”), elliptically omitted (compare e caudata). The phrase is little attested in Latin, and might have been formed in English, or been borrowed from another language which formed it from those Latin roots.