flauta

From Mexican Spanish flauta, with same meaning, because of its shape, resembling a flute. Doublet of flute and fluyt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaʊtə/

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• Rhymes: -aʊtə

flauta (plural flautas)

1. A type of fried cylindrical tortilla or taco.

• flauta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Occitan and Old Occitan flaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflau̯ta/
• Rhymes: -auta
• Hyphenation: flau‧ta

flauta f (plural flautes)

1. (music) flute (woodwind instrument)

• Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). →ISBN. on-line version.

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

flauta

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From Old Catalan flauta, of uncertain origin. Cf. English flute.

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flauta f (plural flautes)

1. flute

• flautí
• flautista

• “flauta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flauta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “flauta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flauta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Norse fljóta, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.

flauta (present flautur, plural flaute, preterite flaut, plural flutu, supine fluti)

1. to float

• IPA^(key): /ˈfløyːta/

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• (dialectal) IPA^(key): /ˈfløyːtʰa/

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• Rhymes: -øyːta
• Hyphenation: flau‧ta

Borrowed from Danish fløjte.

flauta f (genitive singular flautu, nominative plural flautur)

1. flute
2. whistle
3. horn (of a car)

• blístra

• bílflauta
• blokkflauta
• flautuleikari
• skipsflauta
• þverflauta

flauta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative flautaði, supine flautað)

1. to whistle
2. to honk the horn of a car

flauta f (definite singular flauta, indefinite plural flauter or flautor, definite plural flautene or flautone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of flaute (“crossbeam in a sleigh”)

Borrowed from German Flaute, from German flau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflaw.ta/

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• Rhymes: -awta
• Syllabification: flau‧ta

flauta f

1. (nautical) windless weather, calm

• flauta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

flauta

Wikipedia ^pt

• frauta (obsolete)

From Occitan and Old Occitan flaut.

• Rhymes: -awtɐ
• Hyphenation: flau‧ta

flauta f (plural flautas)

1. (music) flute

• flauta de Pã (“pan flute”)
• flauta doce (“recorder”)
• flauta transversal
• flautim (“piccolo”)
• flautista (“flautist”)

• “flauta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Borrowed from Italian flauto. Cognates include Czech flauta and Slovak flauta.

• IPA^(key): /flǎuta/
• Hyphenation: fla‧u‧ta

flàuta f (Cyrillic spelling фла̀ута)

1. flute

Borrowed from Italian flauto. Cognates include Czech flauta and Serbo-Croatian flàuta.

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flauta f (relational adjective flautový, diminutive flautička)

1. flute (woodwind instrument)

• flautovo

• “flauta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Flauta”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Flauta

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From Occitan and Old Occitan flaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflauta/

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• Rhymes: -auta
• Syllabification: flau‧ta

flauta f (plural flautas)

1. (music) flute
2. (Mexico) a type of fried cylindrical tortilla or taco

• → English: flauta
• → Tagalog: plawta

• “flauta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10