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See also:rolé,rolę,rôle,androlê

English

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Etymology 1

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FromFrenchrôle, fromMiddle Frenchrolle, fromOld Frenchrole, fromMedieval Latinrotulus.Doublet ofroll androtulus.

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Noun

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role (pluralroles)

  2. Acharacter orpart played by aperformer oractor.
    My neighbor was the leadrole in last year's village play.
    Her dream was to get arole in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
  4. Theexpectedbehaviour of anindividual in asociety.
    Therole of women has changed significantly in the last century.
  6. Thefunction orposition of something.
    Local volunteers played an importantrole in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
    Whatrole does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
  8. Designation thatdenotes an associated set ofresponsibilities,knowledge,skills, orprivileges
    The project managerrole is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
    • 1939 November 10, “Following The War”, inThe Chart‎[1], volume I, number 1,Joplin, Missouri:Joplin Junior College,page 4, column 1:
      As students all over the United States knuckle down to learning, the rumble of war drums once more proclaims Mars high man in Europe. Discarding morbid curiosity, every student should consider it vitally necessary to get a general picture of the causes, movements, and possible effects of World War II. The average U. S. citizen's knowledge of World War II will probably decide hisrole in it.
    • 2024 April 24, leatherett3, “Do I have to do the permissions from scratch with every role?”, inReddit‎[2], archived fromthe original on2024-09-12, r/discordapp:
      I'm setting up a fewroles that all have the same permissions but different cosmetics.
      When I go to add a newrole, the permissions are all turned off by default. Is there a way to have them default to the @everyone permissions?
  9. (grammar) The function of aword in aphrase.
    • 1984, David M. Perlmutter, Carol G. Rosen,Studies in relational grammar: Volume 2:
      Examining these verbs one by one, what one finds is that Auxiliary Selection does correlate in the expected way with the two kinds of optional transitivity, confirming that with each predicate, one semanticrole has a fixed link with initial 1-hood, another with initial 2-hood.
  10. (object-oriented programming) In theRaku programming language, a code element akin to aninterface, used forcomposition ofclasses without adding to theirinheritance chain.
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Derived terms
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Collocations
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with verbs
  • apply for a role
  • adapt to a role
  • assume a role
  • get a role
  • land a role
  • play a role
  • quite one's role
  • take on a role
  • take up a role
with adjectives
  • central role
  • lead role
  • main role
  • major role
  • minor role
Descendants
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  • → Spanish:rol
Translations
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character or part
the expected behavior of an individual in a society
the function or position of something
(grammar) the function of a word in a phrase
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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role (pluralroles)

  1. (historical) An ancient unit of quantity, 72sheets ofparchment.

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromGermanRolle, fromOld Frenchrolle,role(“parchment scroll, inventory”), fromLatinrotula,rotulus(“little wheel”), which is adiminutive ofrota(“wheel”).[1]

Noun

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role f

  1. role,part(of an actor)[19th c.]
    Synonyms:úloha,part
  2. lines(spoken text of an actor playing a part)
    Synonym:part
  3. role(e.g. of a person in a society)
    Synonym:úloha
  4. (linguistics)role(function of a constituent in a clause)
  5. scroll[19th c.]
    Synonym:svitek
Declension
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Declension ofrole (soft feminine)
singularplural
nominativerolerole
genitiverolerolí
dativerolirolím
accusativerolirole
vocativerolerole
locativerolirolích
instrumentalrolírolemi
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Etymology 2

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Inherited fromOld Czechrolí, fromProto-Slavic*orlьja, from*orati.[2]

Noun

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role f

  1. (obsolete, literary)field(area to grow crops)[14th c.]
    Synonym:pole
  2. old unit of field measurement
  3. (obsolete, literary)area,domain(of activity)
    Synonyms:obor,okruh
    • 1910, Antonín Zoglmann, “Paměti starého učitele. (II.)”, inČeský lid, volume XIX, Praha: F. Šimáček, pages412–418:
      […] horlivý, tichý pracovník na roli školské […]
      […] avid, quiet worker in the domain of education […]
Declension
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Declension ofrole (soft feminine)
singularplural
nominativerolerole
genitiverolerolí
dativerolirolím
accusativerolirole
vocativerolerole
locativerolirolích
instrumentalrolírolemi
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Further reading

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  • “role”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
  • “role”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
  • “role”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025

References

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  1. ^Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “role1”, inČeský etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA,→ISBN, page598
  2. ^Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “role2”, inČeský etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA,→ISBN, page598

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Galician

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Verb

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role

  1. inflection ofrolar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Old French

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Etymology

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fromMedieval Latinrotulus.

Noun

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roleoblique singular, m (oblique pluralroles,nominative singularroles,nominative pluralrole)

  1. roll;scroll (rolled up document)

Descendants

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIXe auXVe siècle (1881) (role, supplement)

Polish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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role

  1. nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofrola

Further reading

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  • role in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Verb

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role

  1. inflection ofrolar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Spanish

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Verb

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role

  1. inflection ofrolar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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