Rota Definition

rōtə
noun
A roll call or roster of names.
American Heritage
A roster, esp. one listing the rotation of duties.
Webster's New World
An ecclesiastical court of appeal in Rome, as for matrimonial cases.
Webster's New World
The definition of a rota is a list or schedule dictating when people are assigned to do a certain job, or an ecclesiastical court of the Roman Catholic church.
When there is a schedule on the door of your apartment indicating whose week it is to take out the trash and do the dishes, this is an example of a rota.
The court of the Catholic Church that a religious dispute would be heard by is an example of a rota.
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(UK) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

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An island of the western Pacific Ocean in the southern Mariana Islands north of Guam. The Japanese used it as a base for their attack on Guam, December 8–11, 1941. Rota remained in Japanese hands until the end of the war.
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Other Word Forms of Rota

Noun

Singular:
rota
Plural:
rotas

Origin of Rota

  • Latin wheel ret- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin rota (“wheel").

    From Wiktionary

Rota Sentence Examples

  • Section II of the act ordered, inter alia, that the trial of every election petition shall be conducted before a puisne judge of one of the common law courts at Westminster and Dublin; that the said courts shall each select a judge to be placed on the rota for the trial of election petitions; that the said judges shall try petitions standing for trial according to seniority or otherwise, as they may agree; that the trial shall take place in the county or borough to which the petition refers, unless the court should think it desirable to hold it elsewhere.

  • Many miracles have been ascribed to him; an official list of these, said to have been attested by eyewitnesses, was drawn up by the auditors of the Rota when the processes for his canonization were formed, and is preserved in manuscript in the Vatican library.

  • The rota of judges for g the trial of election petitions is also supplied by the king's bench division.

  • And, best proof of all, numerous decisions as to what is or is not simony are to be found in the reported decisions of the Roman rota.

  • The tribunal of the Rota consists of ten judges called auditors (uditori), of whom the most senior is president with the title of dean.

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Words Starting With

RROROT

Words Ending With

ATAOTA

Unscrambles

rota

Words Starting With R and Ending With A

Starts With R & Ends With AStarts With RO & Ends With AStarts With R & Ends With TA

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With R4 Letter Words Ending With A