rotas

rotas is a Latin form of rota, meaning “wheel”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of roto, “whirl, spin around”.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.26.3: Ad multam noctem etiam ad impedimenta pugnatum est, propterea quod pro vallo carros obiecerunt et e loco superiore in nostros venientes tela coiciebant et non nulli inter carros rotasque mataras ac tragulas subiciebant nostrosque vulnerabant.

Vitruvius, On Architecture 10.2.14: Rotas enim circiter pedum XV fecit et in his rotis capita lapidis inclusit, deinde circa lapidem fusos sextantales …

All forms of rota (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.