Rota or ROTA may refer to:

Places

  • Rota, Northern Mariana Islands, an island and municipality
  • Rota (volcano), in Nicaragua
  • Rota, Spain, a town in Andalusia
  • Naval Station Rota, Spain

People

  • Rota (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
  • Rota Waitoa (died 1866), New Zealand Anglican clergyman

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Rota (poem), once proposed to be the national anthem of Poland
  • Rota, a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä
  • Rota, a type of round (music)
  • Rota, Rotta, Rotte, Rote, a medieval musical instrument resembling a harp
  • Crwth also called Rote, a medieval bowed lyre

Organizations

  • Rota (formation), an infantry or cavalry unit
  • Reach Out To Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar
  • Roman Rota, the highest appellate tribunal of the Catholic Church
  • Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar, a military police force in São Paulo
  • Rota Club, a 1659–1660 London debate society
  • Royal Rota, the press pool for the British Royal Family

Other uses

  • Rota (architecture), a rotating cylinder built into a wall, used for exchanging mail and food with cloistered clergy
  • Rota (genus), an extinct sea cucumber; see List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
  • Rota (papal signature), a sign which makes up part of the pope's signature
  • Róta, a Valkyrie in Norse mythology
  • Rota, a term for a schedule (workplace), a list of employees who are working on any given day, week, or month
  • Rota, a lion presented to Winston Churchill in 1943
  • Rota, the feminine form of the Chilean term roto (literally "broken"), used to refer contemptuously to poor city-dwellers in Chile
  • Return on total assets, a financial ratio; See Return on assets
  • Rota Fortunae, a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy
  • Rota system, a system of collateral succession
  • The Rota, the collection of golf courses that host The Open Championship
  • , a Linear B ideogram

See also

  • Rotary International, a service club
  • Rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children
  • Roster (disambiguation)
  • Rotta (disambiguation)