rote
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊt
Etymology 1
From Middle English rote, further origin unknown. Likely from the phrase bi (“by”) rote (“heart”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old French rote/rute (“route”), or Latin rota (“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless.
Noun
rote (uncountable)
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.
- 2009 April 2, Jim Holt, “Got Poetry?”, in New York Times[1]:
- But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.
- They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote.
- Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
- The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
- He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.
Usage notes
- Commonly found in the phrase “by rote” and in attributive use: “rote learning”, “rote memorization”, and so on.
- Often used pejoratively in comparison with “deeper” learning that leads to “understanding”.
Derived terms
Translations
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Adjective
rote (comparative more rote, superlative most rote)
- By repetition or practice.
- 2000, Ami Klin with Fred R. Volkmar, Sara S. Sparrow, Asperger syndrome, page 316:
- The former may be seen as a more rote form of learning, contrasting with the latter which appears to include "executive" aspects
Verb
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- (obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Zane Grey to this entry?)
- (transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rót n (“tossing, pitching (of sea)”), perhaps related to rauta (“to roar”).
Noun
rote (uncountable)
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Etymology 3
From Middle English rote, from Old French rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German rotte, and English crowd (“a kind of violin”).
Noun
rote (plural rotes)
- (music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Synonym of crowd.
References
- “rote”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Old French rote (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
rote f (plural rotes)
- rote (musical instrument)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
rote
- first-person singular present indicative of roter
- third-person singular present indicative of roter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of roter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of roter
- second-person singular imperative of roter
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
rote
- inflection of rot:
Italian
Noun
rote f
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Late Old English rōt, rōte, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Doublet of wort (“plant”). See more at English root.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
- The root (submerged part of a plant):
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1-3:
- Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote /, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote / And bathed every veyne in swich licour […]
- When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in such fluid […]
- A root used as food; a root vegetable or tuber.
- A root employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
- The foundation or base of a protuberance or extension of the body:
- Something which generates, creates, or emanates something:
- The origin of an abstract quality; that which something originally came from.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “1 Tymothe 6:10”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- For the rote of alle yuelis is coueytiſe, which ſummen coueitinge erriden fro the feith, and biſettiden hem with many ſorewis.
- And the root of all wrongs is covetousness, which some yearned for and strayed from the faith; they've unleashed many sorrows upon themselves.
- A wellspring or exemplar of an abstract quality that which something comes from.
- The offspring of a certain individual or nation as a progenitor; a lineage or descent.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 5:5”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- And oon of the eldre men ſeide to me, Wepe thou not; lo! a lioun of the lynage of Juda, the roote of Dauid, hath ouercomun to opene the book, and to vndon the ſeuene ſeelis of it.
- And one of the elders said to me: "Don't weep. Look, a lion of the people of Judah and the stock of David has arrived to open the book and undo its seven seals."
- The origin of an abstract quality; that which something originally came from.
- The foundation of a tall structure (e.g. a trunk, pole, turret)
- The (or a key) foundational or core condition, essence or portion of something.
- One who descends from another; a member of an individual's lineage or stock.
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 21:16”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- I Jheſus ſente myn aungel, to witneſſe to ȝou theſe thingis in chirchis. Y am the roote and kyn of Dauid, and the ſchynynge morewe ſterre.
- "I, Jesus, sent my angel to deliver all of you these things in churches. I'm the scion and descendant of David and (I'm) the shining morning star."
- The base of a peak or mount; the beginning of an elevation.
- A protuberance resembling or functioning like a root.
- The most inner, central, or deepest part of something.
- (rare, astronomy) Data used for astronomical purposes.
- (rare, mathematics) A mathematical root.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “rọ̄te (n.(4))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-23.
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rote (uncountable)
- Traditional, customary, usual, or habitual behaviour or procedure.
Descendants
- English: rote
References
- “rōte (n.(2))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old French rote, from Latin chrotta, borrowed from a Germanic form such as Old High German hruoza, borrowed itself from a Celtic term deriving from Proto-Celtic *krottos; compare Welsh crwth. A doublet of crowde.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rote (plural rotys)
- A musical instrument having strings and similar to a harp.
Descendants
References
- “rōte (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 4
From Old English rotian.
Verb
rote
- Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)
Etymology 5
From rote (“root”) + -en (“verbal ending”).
Verb
rote
- Alternative form of roten (“to root”)
Etymology 6
From Old Norse rotinn (“rotten”).
Adjective
rote
- Alternative form of roten (“rotten”)
Etymology 7
A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Noun
rote
- Alternative form of rot
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
rote (present tense roter, past tense rota or rotet, past participle rota or rotet)
- to untidy, to make a mess
- (slang) to fool around (engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “rote” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Old French
Noun
rote oblique singular, f (oblique plural rotes, nominative singular rote, nominative plural rotes)
- rote (musical instrument)
Descendants
Portuguese
Verb
rote
Spanish
Verb
rote
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rotar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rotar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of rotar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of rotar.
Swedish
Etymology
Old Swedish rote, cognate with English rout and Latin rutta, ruptus.
Noun
rote c
- a district (of a parish or town, for the purpose of fire fighting, road maintenance, mail forwarding, social care, etc.)
- a file, a section, a squad, a pair (of soldiers, of aircraft)
- 20 rotar
- twenty file
- med utryckta rotar
- four deep
- indelning av rotar!
- squad-number!
- 20 rotar
Declension
Declension of rote | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rote | roten | rotar | rotarna |
Genitive | rotes | rotens | rotars | rotarnas |
Related terms
See also
References
- rote in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- rote in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- rote in Walter E. Harlock, Svensk-engelsk ordbok : skolupplaga (1964)
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