flota

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See also: flotá, flóta, and flotă

English

Etymology

Spanish. See flotilla.

Noun

flota (plural flotas)

  1. A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.

References

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotes)

  1. crowd
  2. (nautical) fleet
  3. (botany) patch, cluster (of mushrooms)
Derived terms
Related terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

  1. inflection of flotar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

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Etymology

Derived from German Flotte.

Pronunciation

Noun

flota f

  1. naval fleet

Declension

Declension of flota (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative flota floty
genitive floty flot
dative flotě flotám
accusative flotu floty
vocative floto floty
locative flotě flotách
instrumental flotou flotami

See also

Further reading

  • flota in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • flota in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • flota in Internetová jazyková příručka

Icelandic

Noun

flota

  1. indefinite accusative singular of floti
  2. indefinite dative singular of floti
  3. indefinite genitive singular of floti
  4. indefinite accusative plural of floti
  5. indefinite genitive plural of floti

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.

Pronunciation

Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

  1. sailor, shipman
  2. boat, ship

Declension

Declension of flota (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative flota flotan
accusative flotan flotan
genitive flotan flotena
dative flotan flotum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: flote

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔ.ta/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Syllabification: flo‧ta

Noun

flota f

  1. naval fleet
  2. fleet (all the vehicles owned by a company or organization)
    • 2012 February 9, Regina Skibińska, “Ubezpieczenie floty samochodów: Jedna polisa OC dla całej firmowej floty”, in Rzeczpospolita‎, archived from the original on 2022-05-30:
      Zakłady ubezpieczeń różnie definiują flotę pojazdów. Najczęściej ubezpieczyciele za flotę uważają 10 – 20 pojazdów, ale polityka towarzystw staje się coraz elastyczniejsza i można znaleźć oferty ubezpieczenia flotowego dla przedsiębiorstw dysponujących nawet pięcioma samochodami.
      Insurance companies define a group of vehicles differently. Most often, insurers consider a group to be 10 - 20 vehicles, but companies' policy is becoming more flexible, and you can find offers of group insurance for businesses using even five cars.
  3. (slang, humorous) money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze

Declension

Declension of flota
singular plural
nominative flota floty
genitive floty flot
dative flocie flotom
accusative flotę floty
instrumental flotą flotami
locative flocie flotach
vocative floto floty

Derived terms

adjective
noun

Further reading

  • flota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • flota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotter.

Pronunciation

Verb

a flota (third-person singular present flotează, past participle flotat) 1st conj.

  1. to float
Conjugation
    conjugation of flota (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a flota
gerund flotând
past participle flotat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present flotez flotezi flotează flotăm flotați flotează
imperfect flotam flotai flota flotam flotați flotau
simple perfect flotai flotași flotă flotarăm flotarăți flotară
pluperfect flotasem flotaseși flotase flotaserăm flotaserăți flotaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să flotez să flotezi să floteze să flotăm să flotați să floteze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative flotează flotați
negative nu flota nu flotați

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

flota f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flotă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flôta/
  • Hyphenation: flo‧ta

Noun

flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)

  1. fleet

Declension

Declension of flota
singular plural
nominative flȍta flote
genitive flote flȏtā
dative floti flotama
accusative flotu flote
vocative floto flote
locative floti flotama
instrumental flotom flotama

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflota/
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: flo‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotas)

  1. fleet
  2. (Latin America) crowd
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

  1. inflection of flotar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Wikious
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