flot
Crimean Tatar edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian флот (flot), from Dutch vloot (“fleet”).
Noun edit
flot
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French flot (“considerable quantity of poured liquid, stream, flow”), from Old French flot (“mass of moving water, flood, tidal flow”), partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); all from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”). Cognate with Old Dutch fluod (“river”), Old High German fluot (“flood”), Old English flōd (“river, flood”), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus, “river, stream”). More at fleuve, flood, flow.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flot m (plural flots)
- (in the plural, literary) waves
- 2014, Indila, Comme un bateau:
- Un peu comme un bateau / J’avance face à la mer / Je navigue sur les flots
- A bit like a boat / I move through the sea / I sail on the waves
- stream, flood (large amount)
- J’ai reçu un flot de lettres. ― I received a flood of letters.
- incoming tide (of the sea); floodtide
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Further reading edit
- “flot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
flot
- Alternative form of flote (“float, fleet”)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
flot (neuter flott, definite singular and plural flote, comparative flotare, indefinite superlative flotast, definite superlative flotaste)
- Alternative spelling of flòt
Noun edit
flot n (definite singular flotet, indefinite plural flot, definite plural flota)
- Alternative spelling of flòt
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
flot f (definite singular flota, indefinite plural floter, definite plural flotene)
- Alternative spelling of flòt
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Old English edit
Pronunciation edit
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flot n
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Etymology edit
Partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); all from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”).
Noun edit
flot oblique singular, m (oblique plural floz or flotz, nominative singular floz or flotz, nominative plural flot)
- wave, billow; surge on the surface of a body of water agitated by winds
- a large expanse of moving water, flood; river
- current, stream
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