rueda

Borrowed from Spanish rueda.

rueda (plural ruedas)

1. A kind of salsa round dance.

Inherited from Latin rota.

rueda f (plural ruedes)

1. wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

• siella de ruedes

• “rueda”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “rueda”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Spanish rueda (“wheel”), Old Spanish rueda (“wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrweda/, [ˈrwe.d̪a]
• Hyphenation: ru‧e‧da

rueda

1. wheel

Inherited from Old Spanish rueda (“wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).

rueda f (Hebrew spelling רואידה)^[1]

1. wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

   Synonyms: karrucha, karrocha, (Jerusalem, Salonik) karro, (Edirne, Rhodes) tekerlek, (Izmir) chark, (Sarajevo) karotsa

   • 1553, “Reyes Primero, VII”, in Yom Tob Atías, Abraham Usque, transl., Biblia de Ferrara‎^[1], page 244:

     Y quatro ruedas de arambre al aſſiẽto el vno, y tablas de arambre, y quatro ſus rincones ombreras à ellos: debaxo al aguamanil las ombreras fundidas de parte de cada vno à los ayuntamientos, Y ſu boca de entro à la corona, y arriba con cobdo.

     And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters; beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each, and the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit high.

From Latin rota.

rueda f (plural ruedas)

1. wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

• “rueda”, in Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano [Spanish-Leonese / Leonese-Spanish Dictionary] (in Spanish), La Asociación L'Alderique, 2012–2026

Inherited from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).

rueda f (plural ruedas)

1. wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)

• Ladino: rueda, רואידה
• Spanish: rueda

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “rueda”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 448

• IPA^(key): /ˈrweda/ [ˈrwe.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -eda
• Syllabification: rue‧da

Inherited from Old Spanish rueda (“wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”). Cognate with Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese roda (“wheel”), French roue (“wheel”), Italian ruota (“wheel”), Mirandese ruodra (“wheel”), Romanian roată (“wheel”). Related to rodar and rotar.

rueda f (plural ruedas)

1. wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines)
2. circle (of people)
3. train; spread tail (of a peacock)

• → English: rueda
• → Moroccan Arabic: رويضة (rwīḍa)

rueda m (plural ruedas)

1. a Rueda wine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rueda

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

• “rueda”, 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