Rota

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Rota or ROTA may refer to:

Arts

• Rota (poem), once proposed to be the Polish national anthem
• Rota, a type of Round (music)
• Rota, a collection of poems by A. W. Yrjänä

Organizations

• Reach Out To Asia, a non-governmental organization based in Qatar
• Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar, a military police force in São Paulo
• Roman Rota, the highest appellate tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Rota (formation), an infantry or cavalry unit

Places

• Rota (island), in the Marianas archipelago
• Rota, Andalusia, a town in Andalusia, Spain
• Naval Station Rota, Spain
• Rota (volcano), in Nicaragua

People

• Rota Waitoa (died 1866), New Zealand Anglican clergyman
• Gian-Carlo Rota (died 1999), Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.

Other uses

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

See also

• Rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children
• Rotta (disambiguation)
• Rota Club, a 1659–1660 London debate society
• Rotary International, a service club
• Roman Rota, a tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Roster (disambiguation)
• Rota Waitoa (died 1866), New Zealand Anglican clergyman