rota

Plural: rotas

Noun

• A schedule or list of duties, or a turn in a sequence.
• (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts
• a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties
• A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
• A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.

Examples

• It was his ROTA to play the next Scrabble game, so he eagerly picked up his tiles.

Related Words

roster, rota Fortunae, rotate