Etymograph

English

rota

Rota comes from Latin rota ‘wheel’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- ‘to run, roll’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreth₂-‘to run, roll’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hróth₂-eh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rotāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErota‘wheel’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hreth₂-‘to run, roll’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*Hróth₂-eh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*rotāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErota‘wheel’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2014same form

Earliest quotation: 2014, Paul Rees, ‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … Peo: “[The manager] instituted a rota for having the players…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- ‘to run, roll’

rash, 18 more

through Latin rota ‘wheel’

roll, rodeo, rueda, rotund, 15 more

Today it means

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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- / rota

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