rota

Meanings

1. A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

1. A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.

1. A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity.
2. A club established by James Harrington in 1659 to advocate term limits and rotation of government offices; other similar clubs of the era.
3. A surname from Italian.
4. A town in Andalusia, Spain.

1. An island of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.