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語源 1

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

名詞

rota (plural rotas)

1. (UK, Ireland) 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

   • 2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian‎:

     [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.

関連する語

• rotate

参考

• roster

語源 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

別の表記

• rocta, rotta

名詞

rota (plural rotas)

1. (music) A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
   • 2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot):

     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.

参照

• “rota”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

参考

• rota Fortunae

アナグラム

• -ator, Rato, rato, aort-, oart, taro, Orta, RATO, Taro, Roat

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈrɔ.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈrɔː.ta]

名詞

rota f (genitive rotae); first declension

1. wheel
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 2.107–108:

     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
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5:

     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 […]

語形変化

First-declension noun.

下位語

• rota aquāria (“water-wheel”)

派生語

関連する語

• birotus
• petorritum

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “rota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rota”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.