Meaning of rota | Babel Free

Definitions

1. wheel
   declension-1, feminine
2. a car, a chariot
   declension-1, feminine
3. the disc of the sun
   declension-1, feminine, figuratively
4. Equivalent to 'Chariot': A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.

Equivalents

Examples

“aureus axis erat, temo aureus, aurea summae”

the axle was of gold, the pole of gold, all of gold the rim of the wheels, with a set of silver spokes.

“Si rota defuerit, tu pede carpe viam.”

If you don't have a car, you'd better make your way on foot.

“Hic neque tum solis rota cerni lumine largo altivolans poterat […]”

Nor can the sun's disc larger be by much, nor its own blaze much less […]

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