rota

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From Latin rota (wheel).

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rota (plural rotas)

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

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rota

  1. third-person singular past historic of roter

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

  1. to knock out (render unconscious)

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rota

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

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rota persica (Persian wheel)

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Cognate to Sanskrit रथ (ratha, chariot) Old High German rad (wheel) (German Rad (wheel)). Albanian rrota. Compare the Latin rotundus (round, circular).

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rota (genitive rotae); f, first declension

  1. wheel
    • ca. 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoseon, Book II, lines 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
    • a. 55 BCE, Titus Lucretius Carus, De rerum natura, Book V:??
      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 []

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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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rota

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

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rota f. (plural roti)

  1. wheel

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rota f. (masculine roto, feminine plural rotas, masculine plural rotos)

  1. feminine form of roto

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rota (infinitive rotar)

  1. Informal second-person singular () 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.
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