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rotta

rotta is the alternative form of rota.

Meaning of rota

Noun (1)

rota (plural rotas)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
    • on a rota basis

Noun (2)

rota (plural rotas)

  1. A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
    • Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder.2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot)

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Forms of rotta

pluralrottas

Questions about rotta

What is rotta the alternative form of?
Rotta is the alternative form of rota.

Words near rotta in the dictionary

  1. ROTSE
  2. Rotselaar
  3. Rotselaars
  4. rotsome
  5. Rott
  6. rotta
  7. rottable
  8. rottas
  9. rotted
  10. rotted away
  11. rotted in hell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rotta (page history and authors); rota (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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