different between roto vs boto

English

Noun

roto (countable and uncountable, plural rotos)

1. (countable, uncountable) Rotogravure.
2. (countable) A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.
3. (US, informal) Rotisserie League Baseball.
   • 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: confession of a fantasy football junkie

     "But that's just not an exciting quote, so they put on that roto baseball guy saying disparaging things about fantasy football," Emil concedes, referring to a roto baseball expert that HBO interviewed for the piece […]

   • 1997, "BGI bill", Looking for Rules and Regulations for roto baseball league (on newsgroup pdaxs.sports.baseball)

     Looking to find someone who has a comprehensive list of rules and regulations for Roto baseball.

Anagrams

• Root, Toor, Toro, root, toro, troo

'Are'are

Noun

roto

1. fruit

Verb

roto

1. to swim

Synonyms

• (to swim): para'au

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Catalan

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of rotar

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish roto (“broken”).

Adjective

roto

1. torn

Esperanto

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?? (rhô, “the letter ?”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roto/
• Hyphenation: ro?to
• Rhymes: -oto

Noun

roto (accusative singular roton, plural rotoj, accusative plural rotojn)

1. rho

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rota, French roue, Italian ruota, Spanish rueda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roto/

Noun

roto (plural roti)

1. wheel

Derived terms

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *rot?.

Noun

roto

1. grove

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Italian

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotare

Anagrams

• orto, toro, Toro

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rot??. Equivalent to rota (“wheel”) +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ro.to?/, [?r?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ro.to/, [?r??t??]

Verb

rot? (present infinitive rot?re, perfect active rot?v?, supine rot?tum); first conjugation

1. (transitive and intransitive) I turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• roto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• roto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• roto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• roto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Tahitian roto, Tongan loto).

Noun

roto

1. interior
2. lake

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro.to/

Noun

roto

1. egg of ant

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.t?/

Noun

roto f

1. vocative singular of rota

Portuguese

Etymology

Irregular past participle of romper. From Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rump?.

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /??o.tu/
• (verb form) IPA^(key): /???.tu/

Adjective

roto m (feminine singular rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas, comparable)

1. torn, ruptured
2. tattered, ragged.

Verb

roto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of rotar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roto/, [?ro.t?o]

Etymology 1

Irregular past participle of romper. From Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rump?.

Adjective

roto (feminine rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. broken
2. corrupt, rotten
3. (Chile) vulgar, low-class, classless

Derived terms

Noun

roto m (plural rotos, feminine rota, feminine plural rotas)

1. a broken thing or person
2. (sometimes derogatory) a Chilean

Derived terms

• siempre hay un roto para un descosido
• nunca falta un roto para un descosido

Verb

roto m (feminine singular rota, masculine plural rotos, feminine plural rotas)

1. Masculine singular past participle of romper.

Usage notes

• It never means broken down, although may sound like a synonym when failure is caused by a fall, crash, impact, etc., that makes the object divide. For the meaning of broken down, see descompuesto, averiado, dañado

Related terms

See also

• rompido
• quebrar

Etymology 2

From rotar.

Verb

roto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of rotar.

Anagrams

• orto, otro, toro

Tahitian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Maori roto, Tongan loto).

Noun

roto

1. lake

Shona

Etymology

From -oto (“dreams”)

Noun

roto

1. dream

See also

• rota
• zviroto, chiroto
• hope

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??t??/

Noun

boto (plural botos)

1. Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system

See also

• boto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inia geoffrensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• BOOT, Boot, OOTB, boot

Catalan

Verb

boto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of botre

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Spanish voto.

Noun

boto

1. vote

Verb

boto

1. to vote

Etymology 2

Noun

boto

1. Misspelling of buto.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English boot, French botte.

Pronunciation

Noun

boto (accusative singular boton, plural botoj, accusative plural botojn)

1. boot

Fijian

Noun

boto

1. frog

Galician

Etymology 1

Either onomatopoeic, or from the same Germanic origin as Gothic ???????????????????? (bauþs). Compare Dutch bot (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boto?/

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)

   Synonym: arroaz boto

Adjective

boto m (feminine singular bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt, dull

Etymology 2

From bota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?to?/

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. wineskin, waterskin

References

• “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “boto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “boto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

b?t?

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Ilocano boto (“penis”).

Noun

boto

1. penis, male genital

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto boto, English boot, French botte, Russian ???????? (botínok), Spanish bota.

Noun

boto (plural boti)

1. boot

Derived terms

• boteto (“short boot, half-boot; shoe”)
• botizar (“to put boots on, boot”)

Javanese

Noun

boto

1. Nonstandard spelling of bata.

Old High German

Etymology

Cognate to Old High German biotan (“to offer, send, command”).

Noun

boto m

1. messenger, envoy

Descendants

• German: Bote

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch boot and Portuguese bote and Spanish bote

Noun

boto

1. boat, ship, vessel

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Nouns and adjective:

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?bo.tu/

Verb:

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?.tu/

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. boto (Inia geoffrensis, a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon)

   Synonym: tucuxi

2. (loosely) any dolphin, especially a freshwater one

   Synonyms: delfim, golfinho

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Adjective

boto m (feminine singular bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas, comparable)

1. dull (lacking a sharp edge or point)

   Synonyms: cego, embotado, rombo

2. dull; slow (unable to think quickly)

   Synonyms: devagar, embotado, lento

Etymology 3

From Konkani [script needed] (bhat), from Sanskrit ???? (bha??a).

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. (Hinduism) Bhat (Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of botar

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Gothic ???????????????????? (bauþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boto/, [?bo.t?o]

Adjective

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt

Verb

boto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of botar.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English boat or Dutch boot

Noun

boto

1. boat

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish voto.

Noun

bóto

1. vote
2. vow

Derived terms

Related terms

Venetian

Noun

boto m (plural boti)

1. explosion, bang
2. thud, thump
3. toll (of a bell)