noun. A roll call or roster of names.

noun. A round or rotation of duties.

noun. A tribunal of prelates that serves as an ecclesiastical court.

noun. A wheel.

noun. A course, turn, or routine.

noun. A roll or list; a school-roll, a military roll, a roll of jurors, or the like, showing the order of call or of turns of duty.

noun. In music, same as round, or any variety of piece in which repeats are frequent.

noun. A reliquary or other receptacle of circular form, ornamented with a cross whose arms reach the outer rim so that the whole resembles a wheel.

noun. [capitalized] An ecclesiastical tribunal in the Roman Catholic Church, having its seat at the papal court.

noun. Same as rote, in either of its senses.

noun. An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

noun. A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

noun. A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; -- written also rotta.

noun. A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

noun. A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

noun. (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

noun. a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

"Many speculators have suggested that the Latin word rota ` wheel 'is the Tarot's origin."

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