flote

flote

1. simple past tense of flite.

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

flote (plural flotes)

1. (obsolete) A wave.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2

     [...] they all have met again, / And are upon the Mediterranean flote / Bound sadly home for Naples [...]

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

1. To fleet; to skim.

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flote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

From Old French flaute.

flote (plural flotes or floten)

1. Alternative form of floute

• “floute (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

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)

• floote, fflote, flot

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

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.

• floten

• English: float
• Scots: flote, flot

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

From Old English flotian.

flote

1. Alternative form of floten

From Old Norse floti.

• flåte

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

1. raft
2. fleet

flote

1. past participle of flyta

Germanic, compare English float.

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

1. fleet (collection of several watercraft)

flote m (plural flotes)

1. floatation (action and effect of floating)

• flotadura
• flotación

• a flote (afloat)

flote

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of flotar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of flotar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of flotar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of flotar.