role
English
/ɹəʊl/
noun
Definitions
- A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
- The function or position of something.
- Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, and attitudes
- (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
- (object-oriented) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.
Etymology
Borrowed from French rôle derived from Middle French rolle derived from Old French role derived from Latin rotulus (paper scroll).
Origin
Latin
rotulus
Gloss
paper scroll
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- multirole English
- player English
- rerole English
- roled English
- roleless English
- rolelessness English
- roleplayer English
- subrole English
- *corrotulum Latin
- *rotlu Latin
- contra Latin
- rollus Latin
- rota Latin
- rotula Latin
- rotulus Latin
- Rolle German
- rotolo Italian
- rol Dutch, Flemish
- multirôle French
- rôle French
- роль Russian
- enrolar Spanish, Castilian
- rol Spanish, Castilian
- rótulo Spanish, Castilian
- rolle Norwegian Bokmål
- rótulo Portuguese
- rolle Norwegian Nynorsk
- role Old French
- rolle Old French
- rètol Catalan, Valencian
- rollo Galician
- ρόλος Greek (modern)
- rolle Middle Dutch
- rolle Middle French
- ròtle Occitan
- رول Pashto, Pushto