Definition of ROTA

rota

Meanings

Plural: rotas

Noun

  • (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts
  • a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties
  • A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
  • A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.

Scrabble Score: 4

rota is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
rota is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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Words With Friends Score: 4

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