Rota
English
proper noun
Definitions
- (Catholicism) A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity.
- (UK) A club established by James Harrington in 1659 to advocate term limits and rotation of government offices; other similar clubs of the era.
Etymology
Derived from Latin Rota (an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic Church), rota (wheel, rolling thing).
Origin
Latin
rota
Gloss
wheel, rolling thing
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- birotate English
- rota English
- rotavirus English
- rotiform English
- rotor English
- *exderoteolāre Latin
- *roticinu Latin
- Rota Latin
- birotus Latin
- rota Latin
- rotarius Latin
- rotella Latin
- rotellam Latin
- roto Latin
- rotula Latin
- rotulus Latin
- rotundus Latin
- Roero Italian
- rota Italian
- ruota Italian
- roulette French
- rueda Spanish, Castilian
- *Hret- Proto-Indo-European
- *ret- Proto-Indo-European
- roda Portuguese
- رُطْل Arabic
- ruee Old French
- roda Catalan, Valencian
- rodo Galician
- roată Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- rrotë Albanian
- roda Old Portuguese
- aroatã Aromanian
- roatã Aromanian
- arròda Occitan
- ròda Occitan
- *rotā Proto-Italic
- roda Romansh
- rouda Romansh
- rueda Asturian
- ruede Friulian
- rota Sicilian
- roda Venetian
- rua Venetian
- errota Basque
- rota Neapolitan
- rùda Istriot
- rueda Leonese