rotar
Spanish, verb/roˈtaɾ/
rotar is spelled R-O-T-A-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 39,106th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to spin, rotate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de una pieza o un elemento, dar vueltas alrededor de su eje”.
What does rotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to spin, rotate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Dicho de una pieza o un elemento, dar vueltas alrededor de su eje. 2. En una organización o un grupo de personas, ir pasando distintas personas por los mismos puestos o cargos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rotar
- roto first-person present singular
- roté first-person preterite singular
- rotado participle past
- rotando gerund
- rotada feminine participle past
- rotados masculine participle past
- rotadas feminine participle past
- rotas indicative informal present
- rotás indicative informal present
- rota indicative present singular
- rotamos first-person indicative plural
- rotáis indicative plural present
- rotan indicative plural present
- rotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- rotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- rotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- rotabais imperfect indicative plural
- rotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rotar?
- /roˈtaɾ/
- [roˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rotar in Spanish?
rotar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).