flote
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fləʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
- Homophone: float
Noun
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:
Verb
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
Anagrams
Dutch
Middle English
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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflɔːt(ə)/
Noun
flote (plural flotes)
Related terms
References
- “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flo(ː)tə/, /fɽo(ː)tə/
- Rhymes: -oːtə
- Hyphenation: flò‧te
Derived terms
- fiskeflote
- handelsflote
- krigsflote
- redningsflote
Old French
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈflote]
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈflote/ [ˈflo.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: flo‧te
Etymology 1
Deverbal from flotar.
Derived terms
- a flote (afloat)
Verb
flote
- inflection of flotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “flote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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