English

Noun

roto ‎(uncountable)

1. (US, informal) Rotisserie League 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 (on newsgroup pdaxs.sports.baseball)

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

Catalan

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of rotar

Esperanto

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ ‎(rhô, “the letter Ρ”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/
• Hyphenation: ro‧to

Noun

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

1. rho

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto roto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔ.tɔ/, /ˈro.to/

Noun

roto (plural roti)

1. wheel

Italian

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

Anagrams

• orto, toro, Toro

Latin

Etymology

From rota ‎(“wheel”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

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

Inflection

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Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “roto”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• roto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto

Noun

roto

1. interior
2. lake

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/

Noun

1. egg of ant

Portuguese

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of rotar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈro̞.to̞]

Etymology 1

Irregular past participle of romper, from Latin rumpere (perfect passive participle in Latin is ruptus).

Adjective

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

1. broken
2. corrupt, rotten
3. vulgar, low-class, classless

Verb

roto

1. Past participle of romper.

Usage notes

• 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

Related terms

• romper
• rotura
• ruptura

See also

• rompido
• quebrar

Etymology 2

From rotar.

Verb

roto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of rotar.

Anagrams

• orto
• otro
• toro

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto

Noun

roto

1. lake