Translation
wheel
Word origin
From Latin rota, a wheel, by way of its Romance descendants such as Italian ruota and Spanish rueda. English rotate, rotund and roulette all turn on the same root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- rota
- English cognates
- rotate, rotund, roulette
Examples
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The car has four wheels.
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The river turns the big wheel.
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He turned the wheel with both hands.
A trap for the eye: (wheel) and radio (ray, radius, and the wireless) are separate roots that merely look related, so radio is not with a suffix on it. A bicycle is a , but its wheels are , and the spokes are after all, which is the sort of coincidence that makes people trust false seams. Learn the pair together and it stops catching you.
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