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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɹəʊt/
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• US: /ɹoʊt/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• rhymes with -əʊt
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• homophone: wrote
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• CMU ARPABET: R OW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old French rote/rute (“route”), or Latin rota (“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.

From Old Norse rót n (“tossing, pitching (of sea)”), perhaps related to rauta (“to roar”); see hrjóta. Compare Middle English routen (“to roar, bellow, storm, rage, howl”).

From Middle English rote, from Old French rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German rotte, and English crowd (“a kind of violin”).

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• German: auswendig gelernt — Translations
• Spanish: memorístico — Translations
• Spanish: memorista — Translations
• Bulgarian: наизустяване (naizustjavane) — process of committing to memory
• Catalan: aprendre de cor — process of committing to memory
• Chinese Mandarin: 機械學習 /机械学习 (jīxièxuéxí) — process of committing to memory
• Chinese Mandarin: 死記硬背 /死记硬背 (sǐjìyìngbèi) — process of committing to memory
• Chinese Mandarin: 死讀書 /死读书 (sǐdúshū) — process of committing to memory
• Czech: biflování — process of committing to memory
• Czech: memorování — process of committing to memory
• Dutch: herhaling — process of committing to memory
• Esperanto: parkerigado — process of committing to memory
• Finnish: ulkoa (by rote) — process of committing to memory
• French: apprentissage par cœur — process of committing to memory
• German: Auswendiglernen — process of committing to memory
• Hebrew: שִׁנּוּן (shinún) — process of committing to memory
• Hindi: रट्टा (raṭṭā) — process of committing to memory
• Hungarian: magolás — process of committing to memory
• Hungarian: bemagolás — process of committing to memory
• Hungarian: biflázás — process of committing to memory
• Japanese: 暗記学習 (anki-gakushū) — process of committing to memory
• Persian: طوطیواری (tuti-vâri) — process of committing to memory
• Polish: powtarzanie — process of committing to memory
• Polish: repetycja — process of committing to memory
• Polish: zapamiętywanie — process of committing to memory
• Portuguese: memorização — process of committing to memory
• Russian: зау́чивание (zaúčivanije) — process of committing to memory
• Russian: зау́чивание наизу́сть (zaúčivanije naizústʹ) — process of committing to memory
• Russian: зубрёжка (zubrjóžka) — process of committing to memory
• Spanish: de memoria — process of committing to memory
• Spanish: de memorieta — process of committing to memory
• Spanish: memorismo — process of committing to memory
• Spanish: memorización — process of committing to memory
• Swedish: memorera — process of committing to memory
• Telugu: వల్లించు (valliñcu) — process of committing to memory
• Turkish: ezber — process of committing to memory
• Catalan: rutina — mechanical routine
• Czech: rutina — mechanical routine
• Dutch: sleur — mechanical routine
• Finnish: rutiini — mechanical routine
• German: Routine — mechanical routine
• German: Gewohnheit — mechanical routine
• Spanish: rutina — mechanical routine
• Swedish: rutin — mechanical routine
• Swedish: slentrian — mechanical routine
• Swedish: slentrianmässig — mechanical routine
• Bulgarian: шум на прибоя (šum na priboja) — roar of the surf
• Czech: hřmění příboje — roar of the surf
• Dutch: breken — roar of the surf
• Finnish: (aaltojen) pauhu — roar of the surf
• Swedish: brus — roar of the surf
• Swedish: dån — roar of the surf