rota

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.tə/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə

rota (plural rotas)

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

   [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

• rocta
• rotta

rota (plural rotas)

1. (music) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

• -ator, RATO, Rato, Roat, Taro, rato, taro

rota

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

rota

1. third-person singular past historic of roter

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːta/
• Rhymes: -ɔːta

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

1. to knock out (render unconscious)
2. to unhair

• rot

rota f (genitive singular rotu, nominative plural rotur)

1. rotten spot

• rot
• rotna
• rotinn

rota (plural rotas)

1. wheel

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔta/, [ˈr̺ɔː.t̪ä]
• Hyphenation: rò‧ta

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

rota f (plural rote)

1. Archaic form of ruota.

rota

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

• arto, atro, taro, tarò

• 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-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”).

Cognate with Sanskrit रथ (rátha, “chariot”), Lithuanian ratas (“wheel”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Albanian rreth. Compare Latin rotundus (“round, circular”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ta/, [ˈrɔ.ta]

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rota f (genitive rotae); first declension

1. wheel
   • 8 CE, Ovid, 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.

• 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 (plural only)

1. Nonstandard spelling of wrota.

From Latin rota.

rota f (plural roti)

1. wheel
2. bicycle

From Latin rota.

rota f (plural rote)

1. wheel

• roten

rota f sg

1. definite feminine singular of rot

• rotet

rota

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

rota f sg

1. definite singular of rot

rota f (plural rotas)

1. route (course or way travelled)
2. (music) rota (mediaeval string instrument)
3. (Roman Catholicism) rota (ecclesiastical court of appeal)
4. rattan (any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus)
5. combat (a fight or battle)
6. (military) defeat
7. female equivalent of roto

• (route): percurso, caminho, curso, rumo, derrota
• (rattan): ratã
• (fight): luta, combate
• (defeat): derrota, perda

rota

1. Feminine singular of adjective roto.

rota

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of rotar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of rotar
3. feminine singular short past participle of romper

Probably from Romanian roată (“wheel”), ultimately from Latin rota.

rota f (plural roti)

1. wheel

From Latin rota.

rota

1. wheel

• IPA^(key): /ˈrota/, [ˈrot̪a]

See the etymology of the main entry.

rota

1. Feminine singular of adjective roto.

rota

1. Feminine singular past participle of romper.

See the etymology of the main entry.

rota

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of rotar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of rotar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of rotar.