Rota vs. Roster — What's the Difference?

Chiefly British A roll call or roster of names.

A list, especially of the names of players on a sports team or of the personnel in a military unit.

Chiefly British A round or rotation of duties.

A list of individuals or groups, usually for an organization of some kind such as military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled in a particular unit; a muster roll; a sports team, with the names of players who are eligible to be placed in the lineup for a particular game; or a list of students officially enrolled in a school or class.

Rota Roman Catholic Church A tribunal of prelates that serves as an ecclesiastical court.

A list of the jobs to be done by members of an organization and often with the date/time that they are expected to do them.

(British) A schedule that allocates some task, responsibility or (rarely) privilege between a set of people according to a (possibly periodic) calendar.

A schedule or timetable setting out shift times and dates for each employee of a business.

(musical instruments) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.

(math) A bracketed list that shows the elements of a set.

An ecclesiastical court of Rome, called also Rota Romana, that takes cognizance of suits by appeal. It consists of twelve members.

(transitive) To place the name of (a person) on a roster.

A short-lived political club established in 1659 by J.Harrington to inculcate the democratic doctrine of election of the principal officers of the state by ballot, and the annual retirement of a portion of Parliament.

To show the elements of a set by listing them inside brackets.

A species of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music; - written also rotta.

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

(Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

A list of names;

A roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties