# roto
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

Clipping.

#### Noun

roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)
* (countable, uncountable) Clipping of rotogravure.
* (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie baseball.
** 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: confession of a fantasy football junkie:"But that's just not an exciting quote, so they put on that roto baseball guy saying disparaging things about fantasy football," Emil concedes, referring to a roto baseball expert that HBO interviewed for the piece […]
** 1997, BGI bill, “Looking for Rules and Regulations for roto baseball league”, in pdaxs.sports.baseball (Usenet):Looking to find someone who has a comprehensive list of rules and regulations for Roto baseball.
* (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie sports.

#### Verb

roto (third-person singular simple present rotos, present participle rotoing, simple past and past participle rotoed)
* (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

### Etymology 2

From Spanish roto.

#### Noun

roto (plural rotos)
* (countable) A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.

### Anagrams

* Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

## 'Are'are
### Noun

roto
* fruit

### Verb

roto
* to swim

### Synonyms

* (to swim): para'au

### References

* Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈro.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈro.to]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

roto
* first-person singular present indicative of rotar (“to belch”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

roto
* first-person singular present indicative of rotar (“to rotate, to turn”)

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish roto (“broken”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroto/, [ˈro.t̪o]
* Hyphenation: ro‧to

### Adjective

roto
* torn

## Esperanto

Greek Alphabet :
| Ρρ | Previous: | pio kopo |
| Ρρ | Next: | sigmo |

### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô, “the letter Ρ”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroto/
* Hyphenation: ro‧to
* Rhymes: -oto

### Noun

roto (accusative singular roton, plural rotoj, accusative plural rotojn)
* rho

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota, French roue, Italian ruota, Spanish rueda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroto/

### Noun

roto (plural roti)
* wheel

#### Derived terms

* quarrota veturo (“four-wheeled vehicle”)
* rotaro (“wheels, wheel works, wheel movement”)
* rotatre marchar (“to go heels over head”)
* roteskarto (“gauge: distance between the wheels”)
* roto-tormentar (“to break (on a wheel)”)
* rotofelgo (“felloe, felly, rim”)
* rotonabo (“hub, nave”)
* rotosulko (“rut”)

## Inari Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rotō.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

roto
* grove

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* roto in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎, Tromsø: UiT
* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Italian
### Verb

roto
* first-person singular present indicative of rotare

### Anagrams

* Toro, orto, orto-, toro

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rotāō. Equivalent to rota (“wheel”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈro.toː/, [ˈrɔt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈro.to/, [ˈrɔːt̪o]

### Verb

rotō (present infinitive rotāre, perfect active rotāvī, supine rotātum); first conjugation
* (transitive and intransitive) to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish

#### Derived terms

* circumrotō
* rotātilis
* rotātim
* rotātiō
* rotātor
* rotātus
* rotundus

#### Related terms

* rota
* rotābilis
* rotālis
* rotula
* rotundātiō
* rotundē
* rotundifolius
* rotunditās
* rotundō
* rotundula
* rotundus

#### Descendants

* Inherited:
** Catalan: rodar
** French: rouer
** Italian: ruotare, rotare
** Occitan: rodar
*** → French: rôder
** Portuguese: rodar
** Spanish: rodar
* Borrowed:
** → Danish: rotere
** → Dutch: roteren
** → English: rotate
*** → Finnish: rotatoida
** → German: rotieren
** → Portuguese: rotar
** → Spanish: rotar
*** → Catalan: rotar

### References

* “roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “roto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* roto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* roto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (“pool, depression in reef” – compare with Hawaiian loko “pond, lake, lagoon”, Tahitian roto “pond, lagoon”, Tongan loto “depression in coral or sea bed”) from Proto-Oceanic *loto “concave”.

### Noun

roto
* interior
* lake

### Preposition

roto
* in, within

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 428
* ↑ Bruce Biggs (1994) “New Words for a New World”, in A. K. Pawley, M. D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change (Pacific Linguistics Series C; 127), Australian National University, →DOI, pages 24-5
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “loto.b”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 115, 248

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “roto”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 406
* “roto” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Old Javanese

Other scripts :
| Kawi | |
| Javanese | ꦫꦺꦴꦠꦺꦴ |
| Balinese | |
| Roman | roto |

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈro.to/

### Noun

roto
* egg of ant

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔ.tɔ/
* Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
* Syllabification: ro‧to

### Noun

roto f
* vocative singular of rota

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

Irregular past participle of romper. From Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō.

#### Alternative forms

* rôto (pre-reform)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈho.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈho.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁo.tu/ [ˈχo.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁo.to/ [ˈho.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁo.tu/

#### Adjective

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)
* torn, ruptured
* tattered, ragged

#### Noun

roto m (plural rotos)
* (Portugal, derogatory) A poor person, particularly one whose appearance is shabby or unkept.
* (Portugal, derogatory) A homosexual man.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈχɔ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.to/ [ˈhɔ.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/

#### Participle

roto (short participle, feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)
* past participle of rotar

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈχɔ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.to/ [ˈhɔ.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/

#### Verb

roto
* first-person singular present indicative of rotar

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈhɔ.tu]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/ [ˈχɔ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.to/ [ˈhɔ.to]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʁɔ.tu/

#### Participle

roto (short participle, feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)
* past participle of romper

## Shona
### Etymology

From -oto (“dreams”).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

roto$^?$ class ?
* dream

#### See also

* rota
* zviroto, chiroto
* hope

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈroto/ [ˈro.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -oto
* Syllabification: ro‧to

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō. Irregular past participle of romper.

#### Adjective

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)
* broken
    Si no está roto, no lo arregles. ― If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
* corrupt, rotten
* (Chile) vulgar, low-class, classless
* ruptured

##### Derived terms

* blanco roto
* caer en saco roto
* huevos rotos
* pagar los platos rotos

#### Noun

roto m (plural rotos, feminine rota, feminine plural rotas)
* a broken thing or person
* (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean

##### Derived terms

* nunca falta un roto para un descosido
* siempre hay un roto para un descosido

#### Participle

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)
* past participle of romper

##### Usage notes

* It never means broken down, although may sound like a synonym when failure is caused by a fall, crash, impact, etc., that makes the object divide. For the meaning of broken down, see descompuesto, averiado, dañado.

##### Related terms

* romper
* rotura
* ruptura

#### See also

* rompido
* quebrar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

roto
* first-person singular present indicative of rotar

### Further reading

* “roto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* orto, otro, toro

## Tahitian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Maori roto, Tongan loto).

### Noun

roto
* lake