flote

See also: floté, flòte, flöte, Flöte, and fløte

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fləʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt
  • Homophone: float

Verb

flote

  1. simple past of flite.

Etymology 2

Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).

Noun

flote (plural flotes)

  1. (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:
      Ar. [] and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
      (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
      And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
      Bound ſadly home for Naples,
      Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
      And his great perſon periſh.
Translations

Verb

flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)

  1. 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

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

flote

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

Middle English

Noun

flote

  1. Alternative form of flouter

Etymology 2

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).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

Noun

flote (plural flotes)

  1. Something that floats; a float or boat.
  2. A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
  3. A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
  4. The condition of floating; flotation.
  5. (rare) A mass or group of animals.
  6. (rare) A body or mass of liquid.
Descendants
  • English: float
  • Scots: flote, flot
References

Verb

flote

  1. Alternative form of floten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flo(ː)tə/, /fɽo(ː)tə/
  • Rhymes: -oːtə
  • Hyphenation: flò‧te

Etymology 1

From Old Norse floti.

Alternative forms

  • flåte (alternative spelling)
  • flota, flåtå (dialectal)

Noun

flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)

  1. raft
  2. fleet
  3. big man
Derived terms
  • fiskeflote
  • handelsflote
  • krigsflote
  • redningsflote

Verb

flote

  1. past participle of flyta

Old French

Etymology

Germanic, compare English float.

Noun

flote oblique singular, f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)

  1. fleet (collection of several watercraft)

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈflote]

Noun

flote f

  1. inflection of flotă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈflote/ [ˈflo.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: flo‧te

Etymology 1

Deverbal from flotar.

Noun

flote m (plural flotes)

  1. floatation (action and effect of floating)
    Synonyms: flotadura, flotación
Derived terms

Verb

flote

  1. inflection of flotar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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