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語源 1

From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), 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. 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.

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”.

同意語

• roteness (まれに)

派生語

• rotelike
• rotely

参考

• drill and kill
• memoriter
• 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

動詞

rote (三人称単数 現在形 rotes, 現在分詞 roting, 過去形および過去分詞形 roted)

1. (obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
   • 1744, Zachary Grey, ann., Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D., vol. 2. Dublin: […] Robert Owen […] and William Brien […]. page 92:

     The Model of it was, That a third Part of the Senate or Parliament, ſhould rote out by Ballot every Year; […].

2. (transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.

   [Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55

語源 2

From Old Norse rót n (“tossing, pitching (of sea)”), perhaps related to rauta (“to roar”); see hrjóta. Compare Middle English routen (“to roar, bellow, storm, rage, howl”).

名詞

rote (uncountable)

1. (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. [from c. 1600]

語源 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”).

名詞

rote (複数形 rotes)

1. (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.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes

2. Synonym of crowd.

参照

• rote at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• tore