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4-letter words (3 found)

ROOT,ROTO,TORO,

3-letter words (7 found)

OOR,OOT,ORT,ROO,ROT,TOO,TOR,

2-letter words (3 found)

OO,OR,TO,

You can make 13 words from roto according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of roto

roto

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/

Etymology 1

Clipping.

Noun

roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Clipping of rotogravure.
  2. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie baseball.
  3. (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)

  1. (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

Etymology 2

From Spanish roto.

Noun

roto (plural rotos)

  1. (countable) A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.

Anagrams

  • Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

'Are'are

Noun

roto

  1. fruit

Verb

roto

  1. 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(key): (Central) [ˈro.tu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈro.to]

Etymology 1

Verb

roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (to belch)

Etymology 2

Verb

roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar (to rotate, to turn)

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish roto (broken).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/, [ˈro.t̪o]
  • Hyphenation: ro‧to

Adjective

roto

  1. torn

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/
  • Rhymes: -oto
  • Hyphenation: ro‧to

Noun

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

  1. rho

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotaFrench roueItalian ruotaSpanish rueda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈroto/

Noun

roto (plural roti)

  1. wheel

Derived terms

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rotō.

Pronunciation

Noun

roto

  1. grove

Inflection

Further reading

  • roto in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[2], Tromsø: UiT
  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Italian

Verb

roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

Anagrams

  • Toro, orto, orto-, toro

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈrɔ.toː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrɔː.t̪o]

Verb

rotō (present infinitive rotāre, perfect active rotāvī, supine rotātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive and intransitive) to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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[4], 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

  1. interior
  2. lake

Preposition

roto

  1. in, within

References

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.to/

Noun

roto

  1. egg of ant

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔ.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
  • Syllabification: ro‧to

Noun

roto f

  1. 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 spelling)

Pronunciation

Adjective

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. torn, ruptured
  2. tattered, ragged
Derived terms

Noun

roto m (plural rotos)

  1. (Portugal, derogatory) A poor person, particularly one whose appearance is shabby or unkept.
  2. (Portugal, derogatory) A homosexual man.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

roto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

(Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (particularly: shouldn't it be /ˈʁo.tu/?)

Participle

roto (short participle, feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. past participle of romper

Shona

Etymology

From -oto (dreams).

Pronunciation

Noun

roto? class ?

  1. dream

See also

  • rota
  • zviroto, chiroto
  • hope

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /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)

  1. broken
    Si no está roto, no lo arregles.If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
  2. corrupt, rotten
  3. (Chile) vulgar, low-class, classless
  4. ruptured
Derived terms

Noun

roto m (plural rotos, feminine rota, feminine plural rotas)

  1. a broken thing or person
  2. (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean
Derived terms

Participle

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

  1. 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

See also

  • rompido
  • quebrar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

roto

  1. 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

  1. lake

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