rotulus

English

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Doublet of role and roll.

Noun

rotulus (plural rotuli)

A roll of parchment or papyrus that was written on to make a permanent record.

Anagrams

torulus

Latin

Noun

rotulus m (genitive rotulī); second declension

Alternative form of rotula

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

Aragonese: ruello
Catalan: rotlle, rull
Middle French: rolle
- → English: roll
- French: rôle
  - → Catalan: rol
  - → English: role
    - → Spanish: rol
  - → Greek: ρόλος (rólos)
  - → Turkish: rol
- → German: Rolle
Galician: rollo, rolo, → rótulo
Italian: rocchio, ruolo, → rotolo
Occitan: ròtle
Portuguese: rolo, → rótulo
Sicilian: rullu, → ròtulu
Spanish: rollo, ruejo, rundel, → rótulo

References

rotulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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