- Chiefly Brit. a roster, esp. one listing the rotation of duties
- [R-]R.C.Ch. an ecclesiastical court of appeal in Rome, as for matrimonial cases
Origin of rota
L, wheel: see roll
Josh read the rota out loud to the group of volunteers so that each person understood their duties for the day.
- 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.
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.
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rota
noun
- Chiefly British A roll call or roster of names.
- Chiefly British A round or rotation of duties.
- Rota Roman Catholic Church A tribunal of prelates that serves as an ecclesiastical court.
Origin of rota
Latin wheel ; see ret- in Indo-European roots.Rota
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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- Ro′ta·nese′
adjective
noun
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Noun
(plural rotas)
Origin
From Latin rota (“wheel").
Noun
(plural rotas)
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Sentence Examples
- Angelini Rota, Spoleto e Dintorn2 (Spoleto, 1905); and various articles by G.
- 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.
- He took no active share in the political troubles of the time, but from his description of a meeting of the Rota Club, founded by James Harrington.
- 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.
- The rota of judges for g the trial of election petitions is also supplied by the king's bench division.
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