flote
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flote
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Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).
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flote (plural flotes)
- (obsolete) A wave.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
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flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)
- To fleet; to skim.
- 1557 February 13, Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie., London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
- seald their Milk before they flote it
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flote
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flote
- Alternative form of flouter
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old English flota (“fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with influence from Old English flot (from Proto-Germanic *flutą) and Old French flote (from the same Germanic root as the two Old English terms).
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flote (plural flotes)
- Something that floats; a float or boat.
- A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
- A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
- The condition of floating; flotation.
- (rare) A mass or group of animals.
- (rare) A body or mass of liquid.
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- “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.
Etymology 3 edit
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flote
- Alternative form of floten
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flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)
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flote
- past participle of flyta
Old French edit
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Germanic, compare English float.
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flote oblique singular, f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)
- fleet (collection of several watercraft)
Romanian edit
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flote f
- inflection of flotă:
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flote m (plural flotes)
- floatation (action and effect of floating)
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- a flote (afloat)
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flote
- inflection of flotar:
Further reading edit
- “flote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014