flota
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flota (plural flotas)
- 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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- “flota”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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flota f (plural flotes)
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Further reading edit
- “flota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “flota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “flota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “flota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Etymology 2 edit
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flota
- inflection of flotar:
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flota f
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flota
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.
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flota m (nominative plural flotan)
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Declension of flota (weak)
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flota f
- naval fleet
- 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.
- (slang, humorous) money
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze
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Declension of flota
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adjective
noun
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a flota (third-person singular present flotează, past participle flotat) 1st conj.
- to float
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conjugation of flota (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive | a flota | ||||||
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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 |
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flota f
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flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)
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flota f (plural flotas)
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flota
- inflection of flotar:
Further reading edit
- “flota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014