roto

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Clipping.

roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)

1. (countable, uncountable) Clipping of rotogravure.
2. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie baseball.
   • 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: confession of a fantasy football junkie:

     "But that's just not an exciting quote, so they put on that roto baseball guy saying disparaging things about fantasy football," Emil concedes, referring to a roto baseball expert that HBO interviewed for the piece […]

   • 1997, BGI bill, “Looking for Rules and Regulations for roto baseball league”, in pdaxs.sports.baseball (Usenet):

     Looking to find someone who has a comprehensive list of rules and regulations for Roto baseball.

3. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie sports.

roto (third-person singular simple present rotos, present participle rotoing, simple past and past participle rotoed)

1. (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

Borrowed from Spanish roto.

roto (plural rotos)

1. (countable) A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.

• Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

roto

1. fruit

roto

1. to swim

• (to swim): para'au

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈro.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈro.to]

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (“to belch”)

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (“to rotate, to turn”)

Inherited from Spanish roto (“broken”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/, [ˈro.t̪o]
• Hyphenation: ro‧to

roto

1. torn

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: ro‧to

Greek Alphabet

Ρρ	Previous:	pio kopo
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From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô, “the letter Ρ”).

roto (accusative singular roton, plural rotoj, accusative plural rotojn)

1. rho

From German Rotte, Dutch rot, Polish rota, Russian ро́та (róta).^[1] Cognate with English rout.

roto (accusative singular roton, plural rotoj, accusative plural rotojn)

1. company (military unit), rota
   • 1933 [1895], chapter 25, in Lidia Zamenhof, transl., Quo Vadis, translation of original by Henryk Sienkiewicz (in Polish):

     Kaj la maljunulo rakontis pri la kapto de Kristo. Venis roto kaj pastraj servistoj, por Lin kapti. Kiam la savinto demandis ilin, kiun ili serĉas, tiuj diris: „Jesuon Nazaretan!” Sed kiam Li diris al ili: „Mi estas!” — ili falis teren, ne kuraĝante levi kontraŭ Lin la manojn, kaj nur post refoja demando ili Lin kaptis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “roto”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “roto”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Borrowed from Latin rota, French roue, Italian ruota, Spanish rueda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/

roto (plural roti)

1. wheel

From Proto-Samic *rotō.

roto

1. grove

Even o-stem, t-đ gradation
Nominative	roto
Genitive	rođo
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	roto	rođoh
Accusative	rođo	rođoid
Genitive	rođo	rođoi
Illative	roton	rođoid
Locative	roođoost	rođoin
Comitative	rođoin	rođoiguin
Abessive	rođottáá	rođoittáá
Essive	rottoon
Partitive	rottood
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person — — — 2nd person — — — 3rd person — — —

• roto in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022), Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎^[3], Tromsø: UiT

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

• Toro, orto, orto-, toro

From Proto-Italic *rotāō. Equivalent to rota (“wheel”) +‎ -ō.

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

rotō (present infinitive rotāre, perfect active rotāvī, supine rotātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive and intransitive) to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish

• “roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “roto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• roto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (“pool, depression in reef” – compare with Hawaiian loko “pond, lake, lagoon”, Tahitian roto “pond, lagoon”, Tongan loto “depression in coral or sea bed”)^[1][2][3] from Proto-Oceanic *loto “concave”.^[4]

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/ [ˈɾɔtɔ]

roto

1. interior
2. lake

roto

1. in, within

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “roto”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 406
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “roto”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index‎^[6], 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Other scripts
Kawi
Javanese	ꦫꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴ
Balinese
Roman	roto

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/

roto

1. egg of ant

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
• Syllabification: ro‧to

roto f

1. vocative singular of rota

Irregular past participle of romper. From Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō.

• rôto (pre-reform spelling)

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. torn, ruptured
2. tattered, ragged

   Synonyms: rasgado, esfarrapado, andrajoso

roto m (plural rotos)

1. (Portugal, derogatory) A poor person, particularly one whose appearance is shabby or unkept.
2. (Portugal, derogatory) A homosexual man.

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this pronunciation?) (particularly: shouldn't it be /ˈʁo.tu/?)

roto (short participle, feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. past participle of romper

• “roto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “roto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From -oto (“dreams”).

roto^? class ?

1. dream

• rota
• zviroto, chiroto
• hope

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/ [ˈro.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: ro‧to

Inherited from Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō. Irregular past participle of romper.

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. broken

   Si no está roto, no lo arregles. ― If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

2. corrupt, rotten
3. (Chile) vulgar, low-class, classless
4. ruptured
5. (video games, slang) broken

roto m (plural rotos, feminine rota, feminine plural rotas)

1. a broken thing or person
2. (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. past participle of romper

• It never means broken down, although may sound like a synonym when failure is caused by a fall, crash, impact, etc., that makes the object divide. For the meaning of broken down, see descompuesto, averiado, dañado.

• rompido
• quebrar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

• “roto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• orto, otro, toro

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Māori roto, Tongan loto).

roto

1. lake
2. lagoon, usually further elaborated as tai roto^[1]