flota

English

Etymology

Spanish. See flotilla.

Noun

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 the production of Spanish America.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.


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Czech

Etymology

From german flotte.

Noun

flota f

  1. naval fleet

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Old English

Etymology

From Germanic. Cognate with Old Norse flote.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈflotɑ/

Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

  1. sailor
  2. ship

Descendants


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Polish

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Pronunciation

Noun

flota f

  1. naval fleet
  2. (slang, humorous) money

Declension


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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /flôta/
  • Hyphenation: flo‧ta

Noun

flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)

  1. fleet

Declension


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Spanish

Noun

flota f (plural flotas)

  1. fleet

Verb

flota (infinitive flotar)

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of flotar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of flotar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of flotar.
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