roto

See also: rotó, rotò, and rōtō

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

Clipping.

Noun

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

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

1. (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

Etymology 2

From Spanish roto.

Noun

roto (plural rotos)

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

Anagrams

• Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

'Are'are

Noun

roto

1. fruit

Verb

roto

1. to swim

Synonyms

• (to swim): para'au

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈro.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈro.to]

Etymology 1

Verb

roto

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

Etymology 2

Verb

roto

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

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish roto (“broken”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

roto

1. torn

Esperanto

Greek Alphabet

Ρρ	Previous:	pio kopo
	Next:	sigmo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

1. rho

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota, French roue, Italian ruota, Spanish rueda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/

Noun

roto (plural roti)

1. wheel

Derived terms

• quarrota veturo (“four-wheeled vehicle”)
• rotaro (“wheels, wheel works, wheel movement”)
• rotatre marchar (“to go heels over head”)
• roteskarto (“gauge: distance between the wheels”)
• roto-tormentar (“to break (on a wheel)”)
• rotofelgo (“felloe, felly, rim”)
• rotonabo (“hub, nave”)
• rotosulko (“rut”)

 

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rotō.

Noun

roto

1. grove

Inflection

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

• 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

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

Anagrams

• Toro, orto, orto-, toro

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.toː/, [ˈrɔt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/, [ˈrɔːt̪o]

Verb

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

   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

• circumrotō
• rotātilis
• rotātim
• rotātiō
• rotātor
• rotātus
• rotundus

 

Related terms

• rota
• rotābilis
• rotālis
• rotula
• rotundātiō
• rotundē
• rotundifolius
• rotunditās
• rotundō
• rotundula
• rotundus

 

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Catalan: rodar
  • French: rouer
  • Italian: ruotare, rotare
  • Occitan: rodar
    • → French: rôder
  • Portuguese: rodar
  • Spanish: rodar
• Borrowed:
  • → Danish: rotere
  • → Dutch: roteren
  • → English: rotate
    • → Finnish: rotatoida
  • → German: rotieren
  • → Portuguese: rotar
  • → Spanish: rotar
    • → Catalan: rotar

References

• “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

Etymology

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”) from Proto-Oceanic *loto “concave”.

Noun

roto

1. interior
2. lake

Preposition

roto

1. in, within

Further reading

• 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

Other scripts
Kawi
Javanese	ꦫꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴ
Balinese
Roman	roto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/

Noun

roto

1. egg of ant

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

roto f

1. vocative singular of rota

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈho.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈho.tu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈχo.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.to/ [ˈho.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo.tu/

Adjective

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

1. torn, ruptured
2. tattered, ragged

Noun

roto m (plural rotos)

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈχɔ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.to/ [ˈhɔ.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/

Participle

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

1. past participle of rotar

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈχɔ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.to/ [ˈhɔ.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔ.tu/

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

Shona

Etymology

From -oto (“dreams”).

Noun

roto^? class ?

1. dream

See also

• rota
• zviroto, chiroto
• hope

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• blanco roto
• caer en saco roto
• huevos rotos
• pagar los platos rotos

 

Noun

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

1. a broken thing or person
2. (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean

Derived terms

• nunca falta un roto para un descosido
• siempre hay un roto para un descosido

 

Participle

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

1. past participle of romper

Usage notes

• It never means broken down, although may sound like a synonym when failure is caused by a fall, crash, impact, etc., that makes the object divide. For the meaning of broken down, see descompuesto, averiado, dañado.

Related terms

• romper
• rotura
• ruptura

 

See also

• rompido
• quebrar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

Further reading

• “roto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• orto, otro, toro

Tahitian

Etymology

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

Noun

roto

1. lake