rota

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ro=ta

CIDE DICTIONARY

rota, n. [L. rota wheel. The name is said to allude to the design of the floor of the room in which the court used to sit, which was that of a wheel. See Rotary.].

•  An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.  [1913 Webster]
•  A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.  [1913 Webster]

rota, n. 

 A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rota, n.
1 esp. Brit. a list of persons acting, or duties to be done, in rotation; a roster.
2 (Rota) RC Ch. the supreme ecclesiastical and secular court.

Etymology

L, = wheel

THESAURUS

rota

account, agenda, annals, beadroll, cadastre, calendar, catalog, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, chronicle, correspondence, docket, documentation, dramatis personae, head count, history, honor roll, inventory, jury list, jury panel, letters, lineup, list, memorial, muster, muster roll, nose count, order of business, pipe roll, poll, program, property roll, questionnaire, record, recording, register, registry, relic, remains, returns, roll, roll call, rolls, roster, scroll, table, tax roll, token, trace, vestige

ROGET THESAURUS

rota

Periodicity

N regularity of recurrence, periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, Sunday, Monday, months of the year, January, feast, fast, Christmas, Easter, New Year's day, Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day, All Souls', All Souls' Day, Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness, periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork, periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round.