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Definitions and meaning of rote
rote
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹəʊt/
(US) IPA(key): /ɹoʊt/
Rhymes: -əʊt
Homophone: wrote
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishrote(“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote(“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old Frenchrote/rute(“route”), or Latinrota(“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.
Noun
rote (uncountable)
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
Usage notes
Commonly found in the phrase “by rote” and in attributive use: “rote learning”, “rote memorization”, and so on.
Often used pejoratively in comparison with “deeper” learning that leads to “understanding”.
Synonyms
roteness(uncommon)
Derived terms
rotelike
rotely
Translations
See also
drill and kill
memoriter
muscle memory
Adjective
rote (comparativemore rote, superlativemost rote)
By repetition or practice.
Verb
rote (third-person singular simple presentrotes, present participleroting, simple past and past participleroted)
(obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
1744, Zachary Grey, ann., Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D., vol. 2. Dublin:[…]Robert Owen[…]and William Brien[…]. page 92:
The Model of it was, That a third Part of the Senate or Parliament, ſhould rote out by Ballot every Year;[…].
(transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.
[Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55
Etymology 2
From Old Norserótn(“tossing, pitching (of sea)”), perhaps related to rauta(“to roar”); see hrjóta. Compare Middle Englishrouten(“to roar, bellow, storm, rage, howl”).
Noun
rote (uncountable)
(rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. [from c. 1600]
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle Englishrote, from Old Frenchrote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High Germanrotte, and Englishcrowd(“a kind of violin”).
Noun
rote (pluralrotes)
(music) A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
Synonym of crowd.
References
“rote”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
tore
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ʁɔt/
Rhymes: -ɔt
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Frenchrote, Middle High Germanrotte.
Noun
rotef (pluralrotes)
rote(musical instrument)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From Late Old Englishrōt, rōte, from Old Norserót, from Proto-Germanic*wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European*wréh₂ds. Doublet of wort(“plant”). See more at Englishroot.
Alternative forms
root, roote, rot, rotæ
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈroːt(ə)/
Noun
rote (pluralrotesorroten)
The root (submerged part of a plant):
A root used as food; a root vegetable or tuber.
A root employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
The foundation or base of a protuberance or extension of the body:
The root of the hair; the part of the hair within the scalp.
The root of the tooth; the part of the tooth within the scalp.
The root of a nail; the part of a nail within the skin.
The base or attached part of an organ or bodily member.
The base or attached part of a swelling or boil.
Something which generates, creates, or emanates something:
The origin of an abstract quality; that which something originally came from.
A wellspring or exemplar of an abstract quality that which something comes from.
The offspring of a certain individual or nation as a progenitor; a lineage or descent.
The foundation of a tall structure (e.g. a trunk, pole, turret)
The (or a key) foundational or core condition, essence or portion of something.
One who descends from another; a member of an individual's lineage or stock.
The base of a peak or mount; the beginning of an elevation.
A protuberance resembling or functioning like a root.
The most inner, central, or deepest part of something.
(rare, astronomy) Data used for astronomical purposes.
(rare, mathematics) A mathematical root.
Related terms
roten(“to root”)
rotynge(“rooting”)
Descendants
English: root
Scots: ruit, rute
References
“rọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-23.
Etymology 2
Unknown. Sometimes connected to Old Frenchroute(“route”) or Latinrota(“wheel”), but OED rejects both comparisons.
Alternative forms
root, roote
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈrɔːt(ə)/
Noun
rote (uncountable)
Traditional, customary, usual, or habitual behaviour or procedure.
Descendants
English: rote
References
“rōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old Frenchrote, from Latinchrotta, borrowed from a Germanic form such as Old High Germanhruoza, borrowed itself from a Celtic term deriving from Proto-Celtic*kruttos; compare Welshcrwth. A doublet of crowde.
Alternative forms
rotte, roote, roowte
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈrɔːt(ə)/
Noun
rote (pluralrotys)
A musical instrument having strings and similar to a harp.
Descendants
English: rote
Scots: rote(rare, obsolete)
References
“rōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-22.
Etymology 4
Verb
rote
Alternative form of roten(“to rot”)
Etymology 5
Verb
rote
Alternative form of roten(“to root”)
Etymology 6
Adjective
rote
Alternative form of roten(“rotten”)
Etymology 7
Noun
rote
Alternative form of rot
Neapolitan
Noun
rote
plural of rota
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norseróta.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /roːtə/
Verb
rote (present tenseroter, past tenserotaorrotet, past participlerotaorrotet)
to untidy, to make a mess
(slang) to fool around (engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts)
Derived terms
rotet (or rotete)
rotehue
rotekopp
Related terms
rot
References
“rote” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norseróta.
Alternative forms
rota(a-infinitive)
Verb
rote (present tenserotar, past tenserota, past participlerota, passive infinitiverotast, present participlerotande, imperativerote/rot)
(pre-2012)alternative form of rode(see there for more.)
References
“rote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
Of Celtic origin, from Welshcrwth.
Noun
roteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralrotes, nominative singularrote, nominative pluralrotes)
rote(musical instrument)
Descendants
French: rote
Portuguese: rota
Portuguese
Verb
rote
inflection of rotar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
rote
inflection of rotar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Swedish
Etymology
Old Swedishrote, from Middle Frenchroute, roupte(“disorderly flight of troops”), literally "a breaking off, rupture," from Vulgar Latin*rupta(“a dispersed group”), literally "a broken group," from Latinrupta. Related to Englishrout.
Noun
rotec
a district (of a parish or town, for the purpose of fire fighting, road maintenance, mail forwarding, social care, etc.)
a file, a section, a squad, a pair (of soldiers, of aircraft)
20 rotar
twenty file
med utryckta rotar
four deep
indelning av rotar!
squad-number!
Declension
Related terms
brandrote
postrote
rotechef
rotehjon
rotepar
See also
rotel
References
rote in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
rote in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
rote in Walter E. Harlock, Svensk-engelsk ordbok : skolupplaga (1964)