rota

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotor and ruote.

noun

1. (UK) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.
   [The manager] instituted a rota for having the players attend supporters’ club meetings throughout the season, telling them it was part of the job of being a footballer. 2014-07-25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian

Etymology 2

noun

1. (music) A kind of zither used in the Middle Ages in church music.
   Along the creek bed he came, plucking a rota, a zither of five strings with bone-yoke facings and a beaverskin carrying-bag thrown over his shoulder. 2011, A. A. Attanasio, The Wolf and the Crown (The Perilous Order of Camelot)