See also: rotó, rotò, and rōtō

English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping.

Noun

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roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Clipping of rotogravure.
  2. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie baseball.
    • 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: confession of a fantasy football junkie:
      "But that's just not an exciting quote, so they put on that roto baseball guy saying disparaging things about fantasy football," Emil concedes, referring to a roto baseball expert that HBO interviewed for the piece []
    • 1997, BGI bill, “Looking for Rules and Regulations for roto baseball league”, in pdaxs.sports.baseball (Usenet):
      Looking to find someone who has a comprehensive list of rules and regulations for Roto baseball.
  3. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie sports.

Verb

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roto (third-person singular simple present rotos, present participle rotoing, simple past and past participle rotoed)

  1. (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

Etymology 2

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From Spanish roto.

Noun

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roto (plural rotos)

  1. (countable) A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.

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'Are'are

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roto

  1. fruit

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roto

  1. to swim

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (to belch)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (to rotate, to turn)

Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish roto (broken).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/, [ˈro.t̪o]
  • Hyphenation: ro‧to

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roto

  1. torn

Esperanto

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Greek Alphabet
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From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô, the letter Ρ).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧to
  • Rhymes: -oto

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roto (accusative singular roton, plural rotoj, accusative plural rotojn)

  1. rho

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Borrowed from Latin rotaFrench roueItalian ruotaSpanish rueda.

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roto (plural roti)

  1. wheel

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Inari Sami

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Etymology

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From Proto-Samic *rotō.

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roto

  1. grove

Inflection

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Even o-stem, t-đ gradation
Nominative roto
Genitive rođo
Singular Plural
Nominative roto rođoh
Accusative rođo rođoid
Genitive rođo rođoi
Illative roton rođoid
Locative roođoost rođoin
Comitative rođoin rođoiguin
Abessive rođottáá rođoittáá
Essive rottoon
Partitive rottood
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person
2nd person
3rd person

Further reading

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  • roto in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[2], Tromsø: UiT
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Italian

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Verb

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roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *rotāō. Equivalent to rota (wheel) +‎ .

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rotō (present infinitive rotāre, perfect active rotāvī, supine rotātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive and intransitive) to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of rotō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present rotō rotās rotat rotāmus rotātis rotant
imperfect rotābam rotābās rotābat rotābāmus rotābātis rotābant
future rotābō rotābis rotābit rotābimus rotābitis rotābunt
perfect rotāvī rotāvistī rotāvit rotāvimus rotāvistis rotāvērunt,
rotāvēre
pluperfect rotāveram rotāverās rotāverat rotāverāmus rotāverātis rotāverant
future perfect rotāverō rotāveris rotāverit rotāverimus rotāveritis rotāverint
passive present rotor rotāris,
rotāre
rotātur rotāmur rotāminī rotantur
imperfect rotābar rotābāris,
rotābāre
rotābātur rotābāmur rotābāminī rotābantur
future rotābor rotāberis,
rotābere
rotābitur rotābimur rotābiminī rotābuntur
perfect rotātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect rotātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect rotātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present rotem rotēs rotet rotēmus rotētis rotent
imperfect rotārem rotārēs rotāret rotārēmus rotārētis rotārent
perfect rotāverim rotāverīs rotāverit rotāverīmus rotāverītis rotāverint
pluperfect rotāvissem rotāvissēs rotāvisset rotāvissēmus rotāvissētis rotāvissent
passive present roter rotēris,
rotēre
rotētur rotēmur rotēminī rotentur
imperfect rotārer rotārēris,
rotārēre
rotārētur rotārēmur rotārēminī rotārentur
perfect rotātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect rotātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present rotā rotāte
future rotātō rotātō rotātōte rotantō
passive present rotāre rotāminī
future rotātor rotātor rotantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives rotāre rotāvisse rotātūrum esse rotārī rotātum esse rotātum īrī
participles rotāns rotātūrus rotātus rotandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
rotandī rotandō rotandum rotandō rotātum rotātū

Derived terms

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References

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  • roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • roto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • roto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *loto (“pool, depression in reef” – compare with Hawaiian loko “pond, lake, lagoon”, Tahitian roto “pond, lagoon”, Tongan loto “depression in coral or sea bed”)[1][2][3] from Proto-Oceanic *loto “concave”.[4]

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roto

  1. interior
  2. lake

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roto

  1. in, within

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 428
  2. ^ Bruce Biggs (1994) “New Words for a New World”, in A. K. Pawley, M. D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change (Pacific Linguistics Series C; 127), Australian National University, →DOI, pages 24-5
  3. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “loto.b”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  4. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 115, 248

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “roto”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 406
  • roto” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Old Javanese

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Other scripts
Kawi
Javanese ꦫꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴ
Balinese
Roman roto

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roto

  1. egg of ant

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔ.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
  • Syllabification: ro‧to

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roto f

  1. vocative singular of rota

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Irregular past participle of romper. From Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō.

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roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. torn, ruptured
  2. tattered, ragged

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roto m (plural rotos)

  1. (Portugal, derogatory) A poor person, particularly one whose appearance is shabby or unkept.
  2. (Portugal, derogatory) A homosexual man.

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roto (short participle, feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. past participle of rotar

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roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

Shona

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Etymology

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From -oto (dreams).

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roto? class ?

  1. dream

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/ [ˈro.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -oto
  • Syllabification: ro‧to

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō. Irregular past participle of romper.

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roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. broken
    Si no está roto, no lo arregles.If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
  2. corrupt, rotten
  3. (Chile) vulgar, low-class, classless
  4. ruptured
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roto m (plural rotos, feminine rota, feminine plural rotas)

  1. a broken thing or person
  2. (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean
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roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. past participle of romper
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

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Tahitian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Maori roto, Tongan loto).

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roto

  1. lake