rota

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin rota (“‘wheel’”).

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[edit] Noun

rota

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

[edit] Translations

  • Spanish: horario con los turnos m.

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[edit] Verb

rota

  1. third-person singular past historic of roter.


[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Verb

rota (weak conjugation: rotaði – rotað)

  1. to knock out

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb

rota

  1. Third-person singular present tense of rotare.
  2. Second-person singular imperative of rotare.

[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

Kindred with Sanskrit रथ (ratha), “‘chariot’”) and Old High German rad (“‘wheel’”) (German Rad (“‘wheel’”)). Compare the Latin rotundus (“‘round, circular’”).

[edit] Noun

rota (genitive rotae); f, first declension

  1. a wheel
  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. the disk of the sun
    Solis rota.
    The disk of the sun.

[edit] Inflection

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

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[edit] Verb

rota

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

[edit] Romani

[edit] Noun

rota f. (plural roti)

  1. wheel

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[edit] Adjective

rota

  1. feminine of roto (past participle of romper)
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