Rotte
Rotte ( Middle Latin rupta 'department', ' sprinkled crowd' / rumpere 'tear', 'break open') stands for:
- Rotte (military) , part of a formed formation
- Rotte (aviation) , two jointly operating aircraft
- Rotte (settlement) , a small settlement in Austria
- Rotte (hunting) , in the hunter's language a larger group of wild boars
- a sub-unit of the Landsknecht army, see Fähnlein
- a group of shooters at target shooting and bird shooting
- a group of rail workers , see track builders
- a group of forest workers, see forest workers
- a group of trees in forestry, see protective forest
- older word for (mostly violent) grouping together, see riot
- Rottel , North African weight measure
- a method of breaking down organic matter in horticulture, see composting
- Rotte (arable farming) , rotting plant material deposited in a field (e.g. straw rotting)
- Roasting , process for the production of vegetable fibers
- Flax rots , a plant for extracting plant fibers from flax
as well as (other etymology):
- Rotte (string instrument) , historical string lyre similar to a crwth
- SS Rottenführer
Rotte is the name of the following geographical objects:
- Rotte (river) , river through Rotterdam in the Netherlands
- Rotte (Ilme) , tributary of the Ilme in Einbeck , Germany
- Rotte (Nied) , tributary of the Nied in Lorraine, France
Rotte is the family name of the following people:
- Alexander Rotte (* 1989), German skeleton pilot
- Carl Rotte (1862–1910), German painter and representative of the Munich School
- Karl-Heinz Rotte (* 1933), German radiologist
- Karsten Rotte (1929–1997), German physician
- Ralph Rotte (* 1968), German political scientist and economist
See also:
Wiktionary: Rotte - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: rotte - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations