flote

flote

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

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

flote

1. simple past tense 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 606515358, [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

a wave

Russian: волна́ (ru) f (volná)

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 1049068421; republished London: Reprinted for Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, OCLC 7109675:

     seald their Milk before they flote it

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Dutch

Verb

flote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

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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

• floote, fflote, flot

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.

Related terms

• floten

Descendants

• English: float
• Scots: flote, flot

References

• “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.

Verb

flote

1. Alternative form of floten

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse floti.

Alternative forms

• flåte

Noun

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

1. raft
2. fleet

Verb

flote

1. past participle of flyta

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Old French

Etymology

Germanic, compare English float.

Noun

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

1. fleet (collection of several watercraft)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈflote]

Noun

flote f

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

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Spanish

Noun

flote m (plural flotes)

1. floatation (action and effect of floating)

   Synonyms: flotadura, flotación

Derived terms

• a flote (afloat)

Verb

flote

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

Further reading

• “flote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014