roto

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/

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Clipping.

roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)

1. (countable, uncountable) Clipping of rotogravure.
2. (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.

3. (US, sports, informal, uncountable) Clipping of rotisserie sports.

roto (third-person singular simple present rotos, present participle rotoing, simple past and past participle rotoed)

1. (informal) Clipping of rotoscope.

Spanish roto.

roto (plural rotos)

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

• Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

roto

1. fruit

roto

1. to swim

• (to swim): para'au

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

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈro.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈro.to]

roto

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

roto

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

Inherited from Spanish roto (“broken”).

roto

1. torn

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

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

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

1. rho

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/

roto (plural roti)

1. wheel

From Proto-Samic *rotō.

roto

1. grove

• 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

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

• Toro, orto, orto-, toro

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.toː/, [ˈrɔt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/, [ˈrɔːt̪o]

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

• “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

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

roto

1. interior
2. lake

roto

1. in, within

• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 428

• “roto” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈro.to/

roto

1. egg of ant

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

roto f

1. vocative singular of rota

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

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

1. torn, ruptured
2. tattered, ragged

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

1. past participle of rotar

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

From -oto (“dreams”).

roto^? class ?

1. dream

• rota
• zviroto, chiroto
• hope

• IPA^(key): /ˈroto/ [ˈro.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: ro‧to

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

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

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

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

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

1. past participle of romper

• 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.

• rompido
• quebrar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotar

• “roto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• orto, otro, toro

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

roto

1. lake