Rota, rotæ. Plin. A wheele.Curuatura summæ rotæ.Ouid.Orbis rotarum. Plin. Rotarum radij.Ouid.The spokes of wheeles.Strepitus rotarum. Horat. The crying or noise that wheeles make. Acris rota. Per. A swift wheele.Vestigia roræ.Ouid.The print where the cart wheele hathe gone.Currens rota. Hor. Curua. Ouid.Effosæ roræ. Propert. A chariote running swiftly with the reynes in the rses neckes without stay.Errantes rotæ.Stat. Volucres. Claud. Feruenres. Vir. Feridis rotis euitata meta. Hor. Leues.Virg. Rapida. Ouid.Præceps rota. Claud. A swift wheele.Inducere rotam. Mart. Hæc erit admissa meta terenda rota.Ouid. Rota fortunæ.Cic.Fortunes wheele and vnconstate state Rotæ Vir.A kinde of goates. Rota. Plin. A kind of shes.
Roto, rotas, rotare. Col. To turne a thing round like a wheele: to swing aboute.More fundæ rotare aliquem. Ou. To swing one as he wold do a sling.Aper rotat canes. Oui. The bore swingeth the dogges in hys mouth.Caput ense rotare. Luca. Venti rotant flammas cauis fornacibus. Lucret. Telum immane rotat. Sta. He swingeth his exceeding great weapons.Rotans. Participium. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rŏta, ae, f. [kindred with Sanscr. ratha, chariot, and Germ. Rad (cf.rotundus), wheel], a wheel.I.Lit.: pro rotā me uti licet, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 9; cf.: vorsutior es quam rota figularis, id. Ep. 3, 2, 35: orbes rotarum, Lucr. 6, 551; Plin. 8, 16, 19, 52: axes rotarum, id. 16, 43, 84, 229: radiata, Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 15: aurea curvatura summae rotae, Ov M. 2, 108: aquaria, Cato, R. R. 11, 3: ne currente rotā funis eat retro, while the wheel (in a hoisting machine) hurries forward, Hor. C. 3, 10, 10 et saep.—2. In partic. a.A potter's wheel (cf. supra, figularis): amphora coepit Institui: currente rotā cur urceus exit?Hor. A. P. 22; so, Cumana, Tib. 2, 3, 48: Aristarchus invenit rotam figuli, cujus circuitu vasa formantur, Sen. Ep. 90, 31.—b.A wheel for torture (troxo/s, among the Greeks): in rotam beatam vitam non escendere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 9, 24: cervicem circumactu rotae frangere, Sen. Ep. 70, 23; App. M. 3, p. 133; 10, p. 243; Sen. Herc. Oet. 1011.—Ixion's wheel, Tib. 1, 3, 74; Verg. G. 4, 484; id. A. 6, 616; Sen. Herc. Fur. 750 et saep.—c.A roller: aliquid subjectis rotis traicere, Front. 1, 5, 7: propellere, Tac. H. 4, 23; Vitr. 10, 13, 2.—B.Poet., transf. 1. (Pars pro toto.) A car, chariot: si rota defuerit, tu pede carpe viam, Ov.A. A. 2,230; cf. (opp. pedibus) id. M. 1, 448; so Prop. 1, 2, 20; 2, 25 (3, 20), 26; 4 (5), 10, 42: subdiderat rotas, Verg. A. 12, 675; Ov. M. 2, 139; 312; 3, 150. —Of the span of horses: Cynthia fraternis afflata rotis, Sil. 4, 483.—2. Of things in the shape of a wheel or disk. a.The disk of the sun: solis rota, Lucr. 5, 432; 564; cf.: flammea Phoebi, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1022; and simply rota, Enn. ap. Isid. Orig. 18, 36 fin.; Val. Fl. 3, 559.—b.A kind of sea-fish, Plin. 9, 4, 3, 8; 32, 11, 53, 144.—II.Trop., a wheel: fortunae rotam pertimescere, i. e.
fickleness
,
inconstancy
, Cic. Pis. 10, 22; cf.: versatur celeri Fors levis orbe rotae, Tib. 1, 5, 70; Prop. 2, 8, 8 (10); Tac. Or. 23; Amm. 26, 8, 13.—Poet.: imparibus vecta Thalia rotis, i. e.
in elegiac metre
, Ov. A. A. 1, 264; so, disparibus (elegorum) rotis, id. P. 3, 4, 86: jactor, crucior, agitor, stimulor, vorsor in amoris rotā miser, on the rack of love (cf. I. A. 2. b. supra), Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 4.
rŏto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. [rota]. I.Act., to turn a thing round like a wheel; to swing round, whirl about (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. torqueo). A.Lit.: Learchum bis terque per auras More rotat fundae, Ov. M. 4, 517; cf. id. ib. 9, 217; id. A. A. 2, 374: jactare caput et comas excutientem rotare, fanaticum est, Quint. 11, 3, 71: sanguineos orbes (i. e. oculos),
to roll about
, Val. Fl. 4, 235: ensem fulmineum, to brandish (in order to add force to the blow), Verg. A. 9, 441: telum, Liv. 42, 65, 10: telum in ora loquentis, Stat. Th. 9, 802: clipeum, Val Fl. 6, 551: saxa, Sen. Q. N. 3, 27, 6: flammam (venti), Lucr. 6, 202; cf.: (venti) trudunt res ante rapidique rotanti turbine portant,
in a whirling tornado
, id. 1, 295: flammae fumum, Hor. C. 4, 11, 11: se in vulnus (ursa), Luc. 6, 222: conreptum rotatumque sternit, Plin. 8, 16, 19, 51.— Mid., to turn or go round in a circle, to roll round, revolve: Tyrrheni greges circumque infraque rotantur, Stat. Achill. 1, 56: circum caput igne rotato, Ov. M. 12, 296: poterisne rotatis Obvius ire polis?id. ib. 2, 74; cf.: nivibus rotatis (with glomerari), id. ib. 9, 221: sphaerico motu in orbem rotari, Macr Somn. Scip. 2, 14, 31.— B.Trop.: aut curtum sermone rotato Torqueat enthymema,
round
,
compact
,
concise
, Juv. 6, 449: sic ordinem fati rerum aeterna series rotat, Sen. Q. N. 2, 35, 2.— II.Neutr., = rotari, to turn or roll round, to revolve (very rare): parte ex aliā, quā saxa rotantia late Impulerat torrens, Verg. A. 10, 362 Serv. (cf.: volventia plaustra, id. G. 1, 163); so of a peacock spreading its tail out like a wheel, Col. 8, 11, 8.