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From Italian Rota, from Latin Rota, from Latin rota (“wheel”).

Rota (countable and uncountable, plural Rotas)

  1. (Catholicism) A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity.
    • 1728, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopaedia, s.v. "Rota":
      The Rota consists of twelve Doctors, chosen out of the four Nations of Italy, France, Spain, and Germany.
  2. (UK, historical or obsolete) A club established by James Harrington in 1659 to advocate term limits and rotation of government offices; other similar clubs of the era.
  3. (countable) A surname from Italian.
  4. A town in Andalusia, Spain.
  • "rota, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Rota

  1. An island in the Northern Mariana Islands.

island

  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 羅塔島 / 罗塔岛 (Luótǎ Dǎo)
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From rota (“wheel”).

Rota m or f by sense

  1. a surname

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in the end of the 19th century. From rota (“adornment”).

Rota f

  1. a female given name
  • Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
  • [1] Population Register of Latvia: Rota was the only given name of 199 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
  • IPA(key): /ˈrota/ [ˈro.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: Ro‧ta

Rota f

  1. Rota