Other forms: rotas
A rota is the chart saying who works when. On the rota, draw up a rota, the cleaning rota.
This is British; American English says schedule or roster. The reason it is called a wheel is that a rota turns — everybody takes each shift in turn, which is what makes it feel fair. The Latin rota means a wheel, and rotate is the same root.
1nounrotaA chart saying who works when.
“Check the rota to see who's working on Saturday.”
rota is a schedule.
Also accepted in games: roster
Latin rota means a wheel. A rota turns so that each person takes each duty in turn.
Proto-Indo-European
*Hreth₂-
Latin
rota — wheel
English, today
rota
Latin rota (“wheel”). a doublet of rotor and ruote.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA