intransitive verb, transitive verb rotated, rotating
- to turn around or cause to turn around a center point or axis; revolve
- to go or cause to go in a regular and recurring succession of changes; take, or cause to take, turns: to rotate crops
Origin:
< L rotatus, pp. of rotare, to turn < rota, wheel: see roll
adjective
shaped like a wheel, with radiating parts, as the corolla of some flowers
Origin:
< L rota, wheel + -ate