rotula

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See also: rótula, rotulá, and ròtula

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rotula. Doublet of role and roll.

Noun

rotula (plural rotulas or rotulae)

  1. (anatomy) The patella; the kneecap.
  2. (zoology) One of the five radial pieces in the dentary apparatus of the sea urchin.

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Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rotula.

Noun

rotula f (plural rotule)

  1. (anatomy) patella, kneecap, rotula

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From rota (“wheel”) +‎ -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”).

Noun

rotula f (genitive rotulae); first declension

  1. a small wheel
  2. a scroll, a roll
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rotula rotulae
genitive rotulae rotulārum
dative rotulae rotulīs
accusative rotulam rotulās
ablative rotulā rotulīs
vocative rotula rotulae
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Descendants
  • Catalan: rotlle; → ròtula
  • Old French: role
    • Middle French: rolle
      • French: rôle
        • → Catalan: rol
          • → Spanish: rol (“roll (list)”)
        • → English: role, rôle
          • → Spanish: rol (“role”)
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: rolle (partly; also through German)
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: rolle (partly; also through German)
        • Portuguese: rolo
    • → Middle Dutch: rolle
    • → Middle English: rolle
    • → Middle High German: rolle, rulle
      • German: Rolle
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: rolle (partly; also through French)
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: rolle (partly; also through French)
  • → French: rotule
  • Galician: rolla, rolda; → rótula
  • → Italian: rotula
  • Portuguese: rolha; → rótula
  • Spanish: rolla, rondala; → rótula

Etymology 2

From Arabic رَطْل (raṭl); the form is influenced by etymology 1. Doublet of litra.

Noun

rotula f (genitive rotulae); first declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) a rottol (any of various measures of dry or liquid weight originating in the Arab world)
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rotula rotulae
genitive rotulae rotulārum
dative rotulae rotulīs
accusative rotulam rotulās
ablative rotulā rotulīs
vocative rotula rotulae

References

  • “rotula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rotula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rotula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

rotula

  1. inflection of rotular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roˈtula/
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: ro‧tu‧la

Verb

rotula

  1. inflection of rotular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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