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語源 1

From Middle English, origin uncertain. 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.

名詞

rote (uncountable)

1. The process of learning or committing something to memory through repetition, in a mechanical way, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.

   They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote.

   • 2009, Jim Holt, Got Poetry?

     But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.

2. 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.

使用する際の注意点

• 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".

派生語

• rotelike
• rotely

参考

• muscle memory

形容詞

rote (comparative more rote, superlative most rote)

1. By repetition or practice.
   • 2000 Ami Klin; 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

語源 2

c. 1600, from Old Norse rót (“tossing, pitching (of sea)”) n., perhaps related to rauta (“to roar”).

名詞

rote (uncountable)

1. (まれに) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

アナグラム

• tore