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ore rotundo

adv

Etymology

PIE word *h₁óh₃s Learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”), from ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (“to make round”) (from rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs)). Doublet of orotund.

  1. derived from *Hreth₂-✻ — “to run”
  2. derived from *h₁óh₃s✻ — “mouth”
  3. learned borrowing from ōre rotundō — “with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”

Definitions

  1. Spoken in an eloquent, clear, and confident manner.

  2. Delivered ore rotundo.

    • They can almost all turn a sentence well, rhyme when they choose, or make a fine ore rotundo speech, echoed by the apoiados of their companions.
    • He was pretty well informed on the life of the author of the book he was selling, as well as the contents of his book, and would deliver in a most ore rotundo style selections from it.

  3. The practice of speaking ore rotundo.

    • Assuredly the ore rotundo of the Greeks, praised so much by the Latin, did not consist in such uncouth diphthongal articulations which their authors gravely assert to be imitated from dogs, sheep horses, and other brutes.
    • No longer are they carnal and speak as men, but a whine, a broken hum-haw, an ore rotundo, or some other graceless mode of noise-making, is adopted, to prevent all suspicion of being natural and speaking out of the abundance of the heart.
    • In this description of his own style, the only stylistic term Persius copies wholesale from Horace is the idea of the ore rotundo, the rounded expression, of AP 324.

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