orotund

Etymology

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

adj

1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
2. Pompous; bombastic.
   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. 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
   […] 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. 2004-10-31, Anthony Quinn, “'The Line of Beauty': The Last Good Summer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN