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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
flote
- simple past of flite.
Etymology 2
Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).
Noun
flote (plural flotes)
- (obsolete) A wave.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 4:Ar. […] and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
(Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
Bound ſadly home for Naples,
Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
And his great perſon periſh.
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)
- To fleet; to skim.
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: Robert Triphook, , and William Sancho, , 1810, →OCLC:seald their Milk before they flote it
Anagrams
Dutch
Verb
flote
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of fluiten
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
flote
- Alternative form of flouter
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English flota (“fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with influence from Old English flot (from Proto-Germanic *flutą) and Old French flote (from the same Germanic root as the two Old English terms).
Pronunciation
Noun
flote (plural flotes)
- Something that floats; a float or boat.
- A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
- A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
- The condition of floating; flotation.
- (rare) A mass or group of animals.
- (rare) A body or mass of liquid.
Descendants
References
Etymology 3
Verb
flote
- Alternative form of floten
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flo(ː)tə/, /fɽo(ː)tə/
- Rhymes: -oːtə
- Hyphenation: flò‧te
Etymology 1
From Old Norse floti.
Noun
flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)
- raft
- fleet
- big man
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
flote
- past participle of flyta
Old French
Etymology
Germanic, compare English float.
Noun
flote oblique singular, f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)
- fleet (collection of several watercraft)
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
flote f
- inflection of flotă:
- indefinite plural
- indefinite genitive/dative singular
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflote/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: flo‧te
Etymology 1
Deverbal from flotar.
Noun
flote m (plural flotes)
- floatation (action and effect of floating)
- Synonyms: flotadura, flotación
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
flote
- inflection of flotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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