Associations to the word «Rota»

Wiktionary

ROTA, noun. (British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
ROTA, noun. (musici) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

Dictionary definition

ROTA, noun. (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts.
ROTA, noun. A roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats