# role
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: rōl
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɹəʊl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
* (General American) IPA: /ɹol/, /ɹoʊl/, [ɹʷoʊɫ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* (New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /ɹɐʉl/, [ɹʷɒʊɫ]
* Rhymes: -əʊl
* Homophone: roll

### Etymology 1

From French rôle, from Middle French rolle, from Old French role, from Medieval Latin rotulus. Doublet of roll and rotulus.

#### Alternative forms

* rôle

#### Noun

role (plural roles)
* A character or part played by a performer or actor.
    My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
    Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
* The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
    The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
* The function or position of something.
    Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
    What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
** 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
* Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
    The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
** 1939 November 10, “Following The War”, in The Chart‎, volume I, number 1, Joplin, Missouri: Joplin Junior College, page 4, column 1:As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide his role in it.
** 2024 April 24, leatherett3, “Do I have to do the permissions from scratch with every role?”, in Reddit‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-12, r/discordapp:I'm setting up a few roles that all have the same permissions but different cosmetics. When I go to add a new role, the permissions are all turned off by default. Is there a way to have them default to the @everyone permissions?
* (grammar) The function of a word in a phrase.
** 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen, Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2:Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semantic role has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
* (object-oriented programming) In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

##### Hyponyms

* subrole

##### Derived terms

* bit role
* breeches role
* gender-role
* gender role
* massively multiplayer online role-playing game
* pants role
* play a role
* role activity diagram
* role-based
* role conflict
* roleless
* role model
* role-oriented
* role-oriented language
* role-play
* roleplay
* role player
* role-player
* role-playing
* role-playing game
* role playing game
* role-playing video game
* role reversal
* thematic role
* theta role
* title role
* trouser role

##### Collocations

* apply for a role
* adapt to a role
* assume a role
* get a role
* land a role
* play a role
* quite one's role
* take on a role
* take up a role
* central role
* lead role
* main role
* major role
* minor role

##### Descendants

* → Spanish: rol

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2
#### Noun

role (plural roles)
* (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

### References

* role on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* eorl, Orël, orle, lore, Orle, relo, Roel, Orel

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈrolɛ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -olɛ
* Hyphenation: ro‧le

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Rolle, from Old French rolle, role (“parchment scroll, inventory”), from Latin rotula, rotulus (“little wheel”), which is a diminutive of rota (“wheel”).

#### Noun

role f
* role, part (of an actor) [19th c.]
    Synonyms: úloha, part
* lines (spoken text of an actor playing a part)
    Synonym: part
* role (e.g. of a person in a society)
    Synonym: úloha
* (linguistics) role (function of a constituent in a clause)
* scroll [19th c.]
    Synonym: svitek

##### Derived terms

* rolička

##### Related terms

* roláda
* rolovat

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Czech rolí, from Proto-Slavic *orlьja, from *orati.

#### Noun

role f
* (obsolete, literary) field (area to grow crops) [14th c.]
    Synonym: pole
* old unit of field measurement
* (obsolete, literary) area, domain (of activity)
    Synonyms: obor, okruh
** 1910, Antonín Zoglmann, “Paměti starého učitele. (II.)”, in Český lid, volume XIX, Praha: F. Šimáček, pages 412–418:[…] horlivý, tichý pracovník na roli školské […][…] avid, quiet worker in the domain of education […]

##### Derived terms

* rolička

##### Related terms

* rolnický
* rolnictví
* rolník

### Further reading

* “role”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “role”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “role”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

### References

* ↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “role$^1$”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 598
* ↑ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “role$^2$”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 598

### Anagrams

* orel, orle

## Galician
### Verb

role
* inflection of rolar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Old French
### Etymology

from Medieval Latin rotulus.

### Noun

role oblique singular, m (oblique plural roles, nominative singular roles, nominative plural role)
* roll; scroll (rolled up document)

#### Descendants

* → English: roll
* French: rôle
** → English: role

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (role, supplement)

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔ.lɛ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɛ
* Syllabification: ro‧le

### Noun

role
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of rola

### Further reading

* role in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Verb

role
* inflection of rolar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Verb

role
* inflection of rolar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative