rota

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noun (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts
noun a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

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

The tribunal of appeal for the Capitol is the ROMAN ROTA. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
You met them in the little smoking-room at the back of the Rota Club. — Mr. Standfast, John Buchan
From the gallery overhead came the tinkle of a rota, a kind of guitar. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

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