rote

Etymology 1
From, further origin. Found in the Middle English phrase, c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with 🇨🇬/, or 🇨🇬 (see ), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.

Noun

 * 1) Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

Usage notes

 * Commonly found in the phrase “by rote” and in attributive use: “rote learning”, “rote memorization”, and so on.
 * Often used pejoratively in comparison with “deeper” learning that leads to “understanding”.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: наизустяване
 * Catalan: aprendre de cor
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 機械學習, , 死讀書
 * Czech: biflování, memorování
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: parkerigado
 * Finnish:
 * French: apprentissage par cœur
 * German: Auswendiglernen
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: रट्टा
 * Hungarian:, , biflázás, mechanikus/​gépies/​értelmetlen (be)tanulás
 * Japanese: 暗記学習
 * Persian: طوطی‌واری
 * Polish:, repetycja,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, зау́чивание наизу́сть,
 * Spanish: de memoria, de memorieta
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:


 * Catalan: rutina
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,

Adjective

 * 1) By repetition or practice.

Verb

 * 1)  To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
 * 2) * 1744, Zachary Grey, ann., Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D., vol. 2. Dublin:Robert Owenand William Brien. page 92:
 * The Model of it was, That a third Part of the Senate or Parliament, ſhould rote out by Ballot every Year;.
 * 1)  To learn or repeat by rote.
 * [Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55

Etymology 2
From, perhaps related to ; see. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: шум на прибоя
 * Czech: hřmění příboje
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: (aaltojen) pauhu
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 3
From, from , probably of origin; compare 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Etymology 1
,.

Noun

 * 1)  musical instrument

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) road

Etymology 1
From Late, , from , from , from. . See more at 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The root submerged part of a plant:
 * 2) A root used as food; a root vegetable or tuber.
 * 3) A root employed for supposed curative or medical properties.
 * 4) The foundation or base of a protuberance or extension of the body:
 * 5) The root of the hair; the part of the hair within the scalp.
 * 6) The root of the tooth; the part of the tooth within the scalp.
 * 7) The root of a nail; the part of a nail within the skin.
 * 8) The base or attached part of an organ or bodily member.
 * 9) The base or attached part of a swelling or boil.
 * 10) Something which generates, creates, or emanates something:
 * 11) The origin of an abstract quality; that which something originally came from.
 * 12) A wellspring or exemplar of an abstract quality that which something comes from.
 * 13) The offspring of a certain individual or nation as a progenitor; a lineage or descent.
 * 14) The foundation of a tall structure e.g. a trunk, pole, turret
 * 15) The (or a key) foundational or core condition, essence or portion of something.
 * 16) One who descends from another; a member of an individual's lineage or stock.
 * 17) The base of a peak or mount; the beginning of an elevation.
 * 18) A protuberance resembling or functioning like a root.
 * 19) The most inner, central, or deepest part of something.
 * 20)  Data used for astronomical purposes.
 * 21)  A mathematical root.
 * 1) A protuberance resembling or functioning like a root.
 * 2) The most inner, central, or deepest part of something.
 * 3)  Data used for astronomical purposes.
 * 4)  A mathematical root.

Etymology 2
. Sometimes connected to or, but OED rejects both comparisons.

Noun

 * 1)  Traditional, customary, usual, or habitual behaviour or procedure.

Etymology 3
Borrowed from, from , borrowed from a form such as 🇨🇬, borrowed itself from a  term deriving from ; compare 🇨🇬. A doublet of.

Noun

 * 1)  A musical instrument having strings and similar to a harp.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to untidy, to make a mess
 * 2)  to fool around (engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts)

Derived terms

 * (or rotete)

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1) to untidy

Noun

 * 1) rot

Etymology 3
From, from from , from , , ,.

Etymology 1
.

Noun

 * 1) route, path
 * 2) group of armed men on the march
 * 3) hunt, pursuit
 * 1) hunt, pursuit

Etymology 2
Of origin, from.

Noun

 * 1) rote musical instrument

Etymology
, from, , literally "a breaking off, rupture," from , literally "a broken group," from. Related to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a district (of a parish or town, for the purpose of fire fighting, road maintenance, mail forwarding, social care, etc.)
 * 2) a file, a section, a squad, a pair (of soldiers, of aircraft)
 * 20 rotar
 * twenty file
 * med utryckta rotar
 * four deep
 * indelning av rotar!
 * squad-number!