rota

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊ.tə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊtə
• Homophones: rotor (non-rhotic accents), Rhoda (with flapping)

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”).

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

     [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, 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

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ta/, [ˈrɔt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.ta/, [ˈrɔːt̪ä]

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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 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 (plural only)

1. Nonstandard spelling of wrota.

Borrowed from Sicilian rota, from Latin rota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːta/

rota f (plural roti)

1. wheel
2. bicycle

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

• raddiena

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

• 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/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: ro‧ta

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rota.

rota f

1. oath

Borrowed from Czech rota, from Latin [Term?].

rota f

1. rote (musical instrument)

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

rota f

1. (military) rota (formation)

• rota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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)

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 spelling) short feminine singular past participle of romper

rota f (plural roti)

1. Alternative form of rròta (“wheel”)

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

1. Alternative form of roti

From Proto-Bantu *-dóota.

-rótá (infinitive kurótá)

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)

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 (SO)
• rota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• rota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)