Rota

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Sounds like rotor (non-rhotic), Rhoda (flapping) · Rhymes with -əʊtə

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

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

Sounds like rotor (non-rhotic), Rhoda (flapping) · Rhymes with -əʊtə

A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music. Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder.

From Italian Rota, from Latin Rota, from Latin rota (“wheel”).

countable, uncountable A branch of the papal Curia which serves as an appellate court in ecclesiastical cases, including cases of marriage nullity. The Rota consists of twelve Doctors, chosen out of the four Nations of Italy, France, Spain, and Germany.
UK, countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable A club established by James Harrington in 1659 to advocate term limits and rotation of government offices; other similar clubs of the era.
countable A surname from Italian.
countable, uncountable A town in Andalusia, Spain.