flotte

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See also: Flotte and flotté

French

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flɔt/
  • Audio; “la flotte”:(file)

Etymology 1

First attested in Old French as flote, likely from the same Germanic root as English float.

Noun

flotte f (plural flottes)

  1. fleet
Descendants
  • → Catalan: flota
  • → Galician: frota
  • → Italian: flotta
  • → Portuguese: frota
  • → Spanish: flota

Etymology 2

Deverbal of flotter.

Noun

flotte f (plural flottes)

  1. (colloquial) water
    La carte est tombée dans la flotte.
    The map fell in the water.
  2. (colloquial) rain
    Et allez! Encore de la flotte toute cette semaine!
    Come on! More rain this week!

Verb

flotte

  1. inflection of flotter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

flotte

  1. inflection of flott:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Noun

flotte f

  1. plural of flotta

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

flotte

  1. definite singular of flott
  2. plural of flott

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

flotte

  1. definite singular of flott
  2. plural of flott

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse floti.

Noun

flotte c

  1. raft

Declension

Declension of flotte
nominative genitive
singular indefinite flotte flottes
definite flotten flottens
plural indefinite flottar flottars
definite flottarna flottarnas

Adjective

flotte

  1. definite natural masculine singular of flott

References

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