ROTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rota mean? 

• ROTA (noun)
  The noun ROTA has 2 senses:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

2. a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

  Familiarity information: ROTA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Rota" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rota" is a kind of...):

roll; roster (a list of names)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)