rotan.
/ˈrəʊtə/, U.S. /ˈroʊdə/ 1. Roman Catholic Church. With the and usually with capital initial. One of the three judicial branches of the papal Curia, with responsibility for appeals in ecclesiastical cases, esp. those concerning divorce. Cf. rote n.3 1.
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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > papal court (rota) > [noun]
rote1467
rota1561
1561 T. Hoby in tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. Y.i The Rota in Roome is suche another matter as the Court of the Arches in England.
1609 H. Wootton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wootton (1907) I. 461 Having adjudged this thing..solemnly in the Rota at Rome.
1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent i. 37 A Spanish Notarie dared to appeare publikely in the Rota.
1685 London Gaz. No. 2081/1 The Republick of Venice have named four Persons for the Pope to chuse one, to fill the Place of Auditor of the Rota.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Rota consists of twelve Doctors, chosen out of the four Nations of Italy, France, Spain, and Germany.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. 15 To tell the king's courts at Westminster, that their practice is..conformable to the decrees of the Rota or Imperial Chamber.
1817 C. H. Gifford Hist. Wars Occasioned by French Revol. II. viii. v. 1132/1 By a royal decree, the tribunal of the rota of the apostolic nuncio was installed on the 22d of August.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany III. 149 He also claimed the holidays of the Roman rota for himself.
1877 D. Lewis tr. N. Sander De Schism. Anglica Introd. p. lxxiv The next day was the day of the Conference with the Dean of the Rota.
1942 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 22 365 The opposing side could have asked the Rota to review the case a second and even a third time.
1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures x. 159 Annulment proceedings..had finally found their way to the highest court of all, the Sacred Roman Rota.
2. With capital initial and chiefly with the. A political club, founded in 1659 by James Harrington, which advocated rotation in the offices of government. Also: a society of this type. Now historical.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > other types of association, society, or organization
invisible college1647
rota1660
working party1744
free association1761
working committee1821
Ethical Society1822
bar association1824
league1846
congress1870
tiger1874
cult1875
Daughters of the American Revolution1890
community group1892
housing association1898
working party1902
development agency1910
affinity group1915
propaganda machine1916
funding body1922
collective1925
Ku-Klux1930
network1946
NGO1946
production brigade1950
umbrella organization1950
plantation1956
think-tank1958
think group1961
team1990
society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > state ruled by the people > types of
rota1660
theo-democracy1831
banana republic1935
society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Rota
rota1660
1660 J. Harrington (title) The Rota: or, a model of a free-state, or equall common-wealth.
1662 in J. Ogilby King's Coronation (1685) 3 I..With Common-wealths and Rota's fill their heads.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 60 A speculative Statesman,..that did all his Exercises in the late Times of cursed Memory at the Rota, but is not yet admitted to practise.
1877 D. Masson Life Milton V. iii. i. 486 Dr. William Petty..seems to have taken pleasure in troubling the Rota with his doubts and interrogatives.
1914 T. H. S. Escott Club Makers & Club Members iii. 43 As it became plainer that the Cromwellian system could not last long, the tone of the Rota debates grew less constructive.
2000 P. Clark Brit. Clubs & Societies 1580–1800 51 For Harrington, it has been said, the Rota was more vital for the spread of his ideas during his lifetime than his own writings.
3. A rotation (of people, etc.); a round or routine (of duties, etc.). Now esp.: a list of persons acting (esp. carrying out tasks) in rotation; a roster. Also: †a habitual custom or practice (obsolete).
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the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > turn > rota
rota1673
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > a routine
routine1661
rota1673
rut1839
groove1842
society > communication > record > list > [noun] > list of names or people > for duties
roster1786
bill1830
rota1844
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 425 These [councillors] are taken out of the great Council, and go round in a rota.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 95 Such Formal Devotions that are nothing but a Rota.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins I. xviii. 180 The..Occurrences which happened during this Period;..consisting chiefly of the old Rota, of fishing, watering [etc.].
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 631 Perambulating the River..agreeably to a rota which is laid down.
1844 in C. J. Ribton-Turner Vagrants & Vagrancy (1887) 254 The experience of those managers who have taken their rota of duty in the office.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vii. 153 The senior fag, who kept the rota.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiii. 171 According to a rota to be agreed on between each other.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xx. 419 Pleas of debt, which required the attendance of the parties to suits and the rota of qualified jurors.
1882 C. F. Keary Outl. Primitive Belief ix. 437 They heard names called over and voices answering as if by rota.
1911 in N. Amer. Jrnl. Homeopathy (1915) 30 257 The Institution..was formally included on the rota of the French Red Cross Hospitals.
1919 E. W. Hornung Notes Camp-follower Western Front vii. 212 When his week was up there was a genuine difficulty in relieving him, one or two on the rota having fallen sick.
1989 J. Trollope Village Affair i. 3 She'll have you on every rota and committee in sight, within minutes.
1998 Guardian 5 Sept. (Travel section) 3 We were drawing up rotas for turns at waterskiing, knee-boarding, [etc.].
2003 N. Slater Toast 228 Somewhat predictable fare, a rota of the aforementioned tournedos Rossini, duck à l'orange or Montmorency, chicken Kiev, rack of lamb, [etc.].
4. Early Music. A musical composition which has the form of a round; this form itself. Cf. round n.1 19.Used esp. of medieval English songs such as ‘Sumer is icumen in’ (a1300), where this designation appears in the original manuscript.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > part-song > round
rounda1522
catchc1580
rota1782
troll1820
1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 148 Several of them had uncommon talents for singing, particularly the Rota, Pasqua Rossi, and the Ortolani.]
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. iv. 405 It is a descriptive song upon the approach of Summer, set in a canon of four parts in the unison: or, as it is called, a Rota or round.
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 381/1 Rota.., a Round, but the word is sometimes applied to anything with frequent repeats, as for instance a Hymn tune.
1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 180/1 It..is written for six voices, four of which sing the round proper or ‘rota’ (as it is termed in the Latin directions for singing it).
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 652/2 Rota,..medieval name for a round, particularly the Sumer~canon, probably with reference to the ‘turnover’ of the melody in the different parts.
1955 New Oxf. Hist. Music (rev. ed.) II. xi. 402 Its form, which is described in the manuscript itself as a rota, is that of an infinite canon.
2000 Church Times 3 Mar. 18/3 The famous Reading rota (round), ‘Sumer is icumen in’ (c. 1250), was also adapted to an ecclesiastical text,‘Perspice Christicola’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 2.)† rota room n. Obsolete
rota-man n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Rota > member of
rota-man1664
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 210 As full of tricks, As Rota-men of Politicks.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 439 Dr. Will. Petty was a Rota-man and would sometimes trouble Ja. Harrington in his Club.
2005 B. W. Cowan Social Life Coffee ii. iv. 98 Eleven out of twenty-seven..of the identifiable Rota-men went on to become Royal Society Fellows.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Rota > room of
rota room1673
1673 Char. Coffee-house 1 A Coffee-House is..a Rota-Room that (like Noahs Ark) receives Animals of every sort.
b. (In sense 3.)
rota committee n.
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1838 Millbank Penitentiary Papers 4 in Parl. Papers 1837–8 XLII. 334 The boys were brought before the rota committee, who were of the same opinion as myself.
1913 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 21 252 The rota committee recommends an occupation or a definite opening in the most suitable employment available.
1940 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 13 362 During his whole first year of employment he reports..to what is called a Rota Committee.
1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 83/2 The Rota Committee consists of two senior members of the market and a protocol secretary.
rota system n.
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1869 Times 23 Apr. 6/3 Earl Nelson..should regret very much the extension of the rota system [sc. for bishops].
1919 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 82 517 Under the rota system workers ‘played off’ one consecutive week in every four.
1955 Times 25 Aug. 9/6 Only if a six-day shopping week is adopted, with a rota system to give staff a five-day week, will distribution costs be materially increased.
1983 S. Kantaris Playing House in Tenth Muse 50 Meals come from outside daily..chopped into easier pieces by four elderly daughters on a rota system.
2002 J. Mercurio Bodies (2003) 198 We're working out a rota system to cover takes and war rounds.
C2.
rota cut n. an interruption or reduction of power or water supplies which is imposed on different areas by rotation in time of shortage.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > instance of > specific
rota cut1972
1972 Times 12 Feb. 1/3 I am seeking to ensure that the days of prohibition [sc. of electricity use] coincide with those whose plants are most likely to be affected by rota cuts.
1974 Times 15 Feb. 15/2 The third course..is to impose rota cuts designed..to avoid the working days of industry, and..essential services such as hospitals.
2004 K. Smith Environmental Hazards (ed. 4) xi. 225 When all else fails, water can be rationed in the worst hit areas by rota cuts that interrupt supplies for part of the day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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