rota

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊtə/, [-ɾə]

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• Rhymes: -əʊtə
• Homophones: rotor (non-rhotic); Rhoda (flapping)

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.

rota (plural rotas)

1. (UK, Ireland) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

   on a rota basis

   • 2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     [The manager] instituted a rota for having the players attend supporters’ club meetings throughout the season, telling them it was part of the job of being a footballer.

• rotate

• roster

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• rocta, rotta

rota (plural rotas)

1. (music) A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
   • 2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot):

     Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder.

• “rota”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• rota Fortunae

• -ator, Rato, rato, aort-, oart, taro, Orta, RATO, Taro, Roat

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈro.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈro.ta]

rota

1. inflection of rotar (“to belch”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

rota

1. inflection of rotar (“to rotate, to turn”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Latin rupta [via].

rota f (plural rotes) (ORB, broad)

1. route, path

   Synonym: chemin

• route in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• rota in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “rŭmpĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 569

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rota

1. third-person singular past historic of roter

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːta/
• Rhymes: -ɔːta

From rot (“unconsciousness”).

rota (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rotaði, supine rotað)

1. to knock out (render unconscious)

• rot

See rotna.

rota f (genitive singular rotu, nominative plural rotur)

1. rotten spot

• rot
• rotna
• rotinn

rota (plural rotas)

1. wheel

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: rò‧ta

From Latin rota.

rota f (plural rote)

1. (archaic) alternative form of ruota

rota

1. inflection of rotare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Taro, Torà, arto, atro, rato, taro, tarò, torà

• IPA^(key): /ɾɔːta/

rota (infinitive kũrota)

1. to dream

(Nouns)

• kĩroto class 7

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

From Proto-Italic *rotā, from Proto-Indo-European *Hróth₂-eh₂, from *Hreth₂- (“to run, roll”). The exact derivational pathway from this root is disputed:

• De Vaan^[1] and Nussbaum^[2] derive Latin rota from a simple nominalization of the feminine singular of the agentive adjective *Hroth₂ós.
• Stifter, also starting off from an agentive adnominal *Hroth₂ós, supposes that Latin rota instead derives from the neuter collective/plural.^[3]
• Höfler^[4] and Yates,^[5] by contrast, take Latin rota as an *(o)-éh₂ formation *(H)rotéh₂, and posit Sanskrit रथ (ratha) as from *(H)rot-h₂-ós, a possessive derivative of the feminine word.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔː.ta]

rota f (genitive rotae); first declension

1. wheel
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.107–108:

     aureus axis erat, temo aureus, aurea summae
     curvatura rotae, radiorum argenteus ordo

     the axle was of gold, the pole of gold, all of gold
     the rim of the wheels, with a set of silver spokes.

2. (pars pro toto) a car, a chariot

   Si rota defuerit, tu pede carpe viam.

   If you don't have a car, you'd better make your way on foot.

3. (figuratively) the disc of the sun
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5:

     Hic neque tum solis rota cerni lumine largo
     altivolans poterat […]

     Nor can the sun's disc larger be by much, nor its own blaze much less […]

First-declension noun.

• rota aquāria (“water-wheel”)

• birotus
• petorritum

• “rota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rota”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

rota f (4th declension)

1. ornament
2. decoration
3. adornment
4. flower
5. jewel

• rotāt

rota f (4th declension)

1. (military) company

rota pl

1. nonstandard spelling of wrota

Borrowed from Sicilian rota, from Latin rota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːta/
• Rhymes: -ɔːta

rota f (plural roti)

1. wheel

   Alternative form: tajer

2. bicycle

   Synonyms: (less common) bajsikil, (rare) biċikletta

• raddiena

Inherited from Latin rota.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈrɔːtə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈroːtă]

rota f (plural rote)

1. wheel

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1227: “la ruota” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003), “ròta”, in Schedario Napoletano

• roten

rota f sg

1. definite feminine singular of rot

• rotet

rota

1. past tense of rote
2. past participle of rote

• IPA^(key): /ˈruːtɑ/

rota f

1. definite singular of rot

• IPA^(key): /²ruːtɑ/

rota (present tense rotar, past tense rota, past participle rota, passive infinitive rotast, present participle rotande, imperative rota/rot)

1. alternative form of rote

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: ro‧ta
• Homophone: Rota

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rota.

rota f

1. oath, swear, vow (form of solemn pledge (e.g., military))

Borrowed from Czech rota.

rota f

1. rote (kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy)

Borrowed from Middle High German rotte, from Old French rote.

rota f

1. (historical, military) rota (infantry or cavalry unit in Poland in the 16th–17th c.)
2. (historical, military) rota (row of soldiers in formation in Poland in the 18th c.)

Borrowed from German Rotte.

rota f

1. (firefighting) group of rescuers or firefighters consisting of two people

Learned borrowing from Latin rota.

rota f

1. (law, Roman Catholicism) tribunal of appeal functioning under the Roman Curia
2. (historical) type of torture during which the convict was entwined in a wheel
3. (historical) wheel used in this type of torture

• “rota”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “rota”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Borrowed from Old French rote (modern French route).^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota f (plural rotas)

1. route (course or way travelled)

   Synonyms: percurso, caminho, curso, rumo, derrota

• rotear

From Latin rupta, ruptus.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota f (plural rotas)

1. combat (a fight or battle)

   Synonyms: luta, combate

2. (military) defeat

   Synonyms: derrota, perda

From Old French rote, from Germanic.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota f (plural rotas)

1. (music) rota (mediaeval string instrument)

Borrowed from Italian rota.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota f (plural rotas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) rota (ecclesiastical court of appeal)

rota f (plural rotas)

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Borrowed from Malay rotan.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota f (plural rotas)

1. rattan (any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus)

   Synonyms: rotim, ratã

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota

1. feminine singular of roto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota

1. inflection of rotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: ro‧ta

rota

1. (Brazilian Portuguese spelling) short feminine singular past participle of romper

• “rota”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

rota f (plural roti)

1. alternative form of rròta (“wheel”)

a rota (third-person singular present rotează, past participle rotat) 1st conjugation

1. alternative form of roti

From Proto-Bantu *-dóota.

-rota^? (infinitive kurota, perfective -rose)

1. dream

• inzozi

From Proto-Bantu *-dóota.

-rótá (infinitive kurótá)

1. dream

• chiroto

From Latin rota.

rota

1. wheel

• IPA^(key): /ˈrota/ [ˈro.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: ro‧ta

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rota f (plural rotas)

1. female equivalent of roto

rota

1. feminine singular of roto

rota f sg

1. feminine singular of roto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rota

1. inflection of rotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

rot +‎ -a

rota (present rotar, preterite rotade, supine rotat, imperative rota)

1. to rummage, to root (search for something in a messy manner)
2. (computing) to root (gain privileged access on a device)
3. (reflexive) to put down roots
4. (reflexive, figuratively) to become settled

Often with a particle like runt (“around”), igenom (“through”), or fram (“forth”) (used like "out," for when something is found).

• böka (“to root, to dig”)

• “rota”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “rota”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “rota”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Ottoman Turkish روطه (rota), from Italian rotta.

• IPA^(key): /ɾɔ.ta/

rota (definite accusative rotayı, plural rotalar)

1. route, course, heading

   Synonym: güzergâh