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Webster 1913 Edition

Rota

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Ro′ta

,
Noun.
[L.
rota
wheel. The name is said to allude to the design of the floor of the room in which the court used to sit, which was that of a wheel. See
Rotary
.]
1.
An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also
Rota Romana
, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.
2.
(Eng. Hist.)
A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

Ro′ta

,
Noun.
(Mus.)
A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; – written also
rotta
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rota

RO'TA

,
Noun.
[L. rota. See Rotary.]
1.
An ecclesiastical court of Rome, composed of twelve prelates, of whom one must be a German, another a Frenchman, and two Spaniards; the other eight are Italians. This is one of the most august tribunals in Rome, taking cognizance of all suits in the territory of the church by appeal, and of all matters beneficiary and patrimonial.
2.
In English history, a club of politicians, who, in the time of Charles I. contemplated an equal government by rotation.

Definition 2024

Rota

Rota

See also: rota, rotá, ròta, rotà, rōta, röta, and rȫta

Latvian

Proper noun

Rota f

  1. A female given name.

References

  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
  • Population Register of Latvia: Rota was the only given name of 199 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

rota

rota

See also: Rota, rotá, ròta, rotà, rōta, röta, and rȫta

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.‎
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

rota ‎(plural rotas)

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

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

rota

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

French

Verb

rota

  1. third-person singular past historic of roter

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔːta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːta

Etymology 1

Verb

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

  1. to knock out (render unconscious)
  2. to unhair
Conjugation
rotast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að rotast
supine
(sagnbót) 		rotast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		rotandist **
** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses
indicative
(framsöguháttur) 		subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð) 		ég rotast við rotumst present
(nútíð) 		ég rotist við rotumst
þú rotast þið rotist þú rotist þið rotist
hann, hún, það rotast þeir, þær, þau rotast hann, hún, það rotist þeir, þær, þau rotist
past
(þátíð) 		ég rotaðist við rotuðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég rotaðist við rotuðumst
þú rotaðist þið rotuðust þú rotaðist þið rotuðust
hann, hún, það rotaðist þeir, þær, þau rotuðust hann, hún, það rotaðist þeir, þær, þau rotuðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		rotast (þú) rotist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
rotastu rotisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

rota f ‎(genitive singular rotu, nominative plural rotur)

  1. rotten spot
Declension
Related terms

Interlingua

Noun

rota ‎(plural rotas)

  1. wheel

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

rota f ‎(plural rote)

  1. Archaic form of ruota.

Etymology 2

Verb

rota

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

Anagrams

Latin

rota persica (Iranian wheel)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *Hret- ‎(“to roll”).

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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 […]

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative rota rotae
genitive rotae rotārum
dative rotae rotīs
accusative rotam rotās
ablative rotā rotīs
vocative rota rotae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Lower Sorbian

Noun

rota pl ‎(plurale tantum)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of wrota.

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

From Latin rota.

Noun

rota f

  1. wheel

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin rota.

Noun

rota f (plural rote)

  1. wheel

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

rota f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of rot

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Verb

rota

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rota f sg

  1. definite singular of rot

Portuguese

Noun

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. feminine equivalent of roto

Synonyms

Adjective

rota f sg

  1. Feminine singular of adjective roto.

Verb

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

Romani

Noun

rota f ‎(plural roti)

  1. wheel

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin rota.

Noun

rota

  1. wheel

Spanish

Adjective

rota f sg

  1. feminine singular of roto

Verb

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.

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From rota ‎(“adornment”).

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