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rota en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹəʊtə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ɾə] (General-American)
• /ˈɹoʊtə/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
   • on a rota basis
   • [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. 2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Relateds

roster · rotate

Translations (9)

es horario con los turnos (schedule) · it ruolino di servizio (schedule) · fi työlista (schedule) · it ruolino di marcia (schedule) · cs rozpis (služeb, úkolů) (schedule) · it calendario di lavoro (schedule) · ga uainchlár (schedule) · sv arbetsschema (schedule) · ru смена (schedule)

rota en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹəʊtə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• [-ɾə] (General-American)
• /ˈɹoʊtə/ (General-American)

Etymology

Meanings

1. A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
   • Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder. 2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot):

Forms

Relateds

rota Fortunae