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flota

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See also: flotá, flóta, and flotă

English

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Etymology

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From Spanish. See flotilla.

Noun

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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.

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

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flota f (plural flotes)

  1. crowd
  2. (nautical) fleet
  3. (botany) patch, cluster (of mushrooms)
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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flota

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

Czech

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Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Etymology

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Derived from German Flotte.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flota f

  1. naval fleet

Declension

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See also

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Further reading

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

Icelandic

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Noun

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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

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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flota m (nominative plural flotan)

  1. sailor, shipman
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċipere
  2. boat, ship
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

Declension

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Weak:

singular plural
nominative flota flotan
accusative flotan flotan
genitive flotan flotena
dative flotan flotum

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: flote

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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[1], 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

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Derived terms

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adjective
noun

Further reading

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

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French flotter.

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Verb

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

  1. to float
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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flota f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flotă

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)

  1. fleet

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈflota/ [ˈflo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: flo‧ta

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

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flota f (plural flotas)

  1. fleet
  2. (Latin America) crowd
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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flota

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

Further reading

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