rota ae, f 2 AR-, a wheel: aurea summae Curvatura rotae, O.: Ne currente retro funis eat rotā, while the wheel hurries forward, H.

—A potter's wheel: currente rotā cur urceus exit? H.

— A wheel for torture: in rotam beatam vitam non escendere: Ixionii rota orbis, V.

—A car, chariot: Si rota defuerit, tu pede carpe viam, O.: Subdiderat rotas, V.: croceis invecta rotis Aurora, O.

— Fig., a wheel: fortunae, i. e. fickleness: imparibus vecta Thalia rotis, i. e. in elegiac metre, O.: disparibus (elegorum) rotis, O.