What is "otto"

Attar \At"tar\, n. [Per. 'atar perfume, essence, Ar. 'itr, fr. 'atara to smell sweet. Cf. Otto.] A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses.

n. (alternative spelling of attar English)

Otto is a masculine German given name. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants Audo, Odo, Udo) of Germanic names beginning in aud-, an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".

The name is recorded from the 7th century ( Odo, son of Uro, courtier of Sigebert III). It was the name of three 10th-century German kings, the first of whom was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottonian dynasty.

The Gothic form of the prefix was auda- (as in e.g. Audaþius), the Anglo-Saxon form was ead- (as in e.g. Eadmund), the Old Norse form was auð-.

The given name Otis arose from an English surname, which was in turn derived from Ode, a variant form of Odo, Otto.

Due to Otto von Bismarck, the given name Otto was strongly associated with the German Empire in the later 19th century. It was comparatively frequently given in the United States (presumably in German American families) during the 1880s to 1890s, remaining in the top 100 most popular masculine given names in the US throughout 1880–1898, but its popularity decreased significantly after 1900 with increasing anti-German sentiment leading up to World War I; it fell below rank 200 in 1919, below rank 500 in 1947, and below rank 1000 in 1975; it re-entered the top-1000 most popular given names in the US only in the 2010s, ranking 696th as of 2013.

Otto is a surname, and may refer to

• Catherine Otto, author of echocardiography textbooks
• Christoph Friedrich Otto, (1783-1856) German botanist
• Felix Otto (mathematician) (born 1966), German mathematician
• Frei Otto (1925-2015), German architect

• Professor Tadeusz Otto (born 1926) Polish Cardiac Surgeon

• Dr. Frank Otto (born 1936), American educator and entrepreneur
• Gustav Otto (1883–1926), German aircraft and aircraft-engine designer and manufacturer
• Jan Otto (1841–1916), publisher of Otto's encyclopedia
• John Otto (FBI acting director)
• John Otto (park ranger) (1870-1952), American environmental advocate
• Lisa Otto (1919-2013), opera singer
• Michael Otto (born 1943), head of Otto GmbH
• Nikolaus Otto (1832–1891), coinventor of the Otto cycle
• Rudolf Otto (1869–1937), German theologian
• Shawn Lawrence Otto, American author, filmmaker, political strategist
• William Tod Otto (1816–1905), American judge

Otto (died 643 or 644) was the mayor of the palace of Austrasia briefly in the mid-seventh century.

Otto was the son of a domesticus named Uro who served in the court of Dagobert I. Otto was raised with Dagobert's son Sigebert III and subsequently acted as Sigebert III's baiolos ( bailiff?). On the death of Pepin of Landen in 639 or 640, Otto challenged the succession of Grimoald to the mayorship. Otto was eventually murdered by Leuthard II, Duke of Alemannia, at the request of Grimoald.

Otto is a given name of Germanic origin.

Otto may also refer to:

Otto (14 February 1989 – 14 January 2010), also known as Otto Jones, was a male dachshund- terrier cross who, from October 2009 at 20 years and 8 months, was said at the time to hold the Guinness World Record as the world's oldest living dog until his death in January 2010.

Otto Maximiliano Pereira de Cordeiro Ferreira (born June 28, 1968), known mononymously as Otto, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, drummer and TV presenter, famous for being one of the founding members of the pioneering Mangue Bit band Mundo Livre S/A, of which he served as its drummer from 1984 to 1996.

Otto is an American self-driving technology company established in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski. The San Francisco-based team, which has 90 employees as of August 2016, retrofits semi trucks with radars, cameras and laser sensors to make them capable of driving themselves. In August 2016 Otto was acquired by the transportation network company Uber. Co-founder Lior Ron has stated that Otto will have self-driving fleets of trucks on the road by early 2017.