wheel (a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines); circle (of people); train; spread tail (of a peacock)
Inherited from Old Spanish rueda (“wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hret- (“to roll”). Cognate with Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese roda (“wheel”), French roue (“wheel”), Italian ruota (“wheel”), Mirandese ruodra (“wheel”), Romanian roată (“wheel”). Related to rodar and rotar.