flota

From Spanish. See flotilla.

flota (plural flotas)

1. A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.

• “flota”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• aloft, float

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈflɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈflɔ.ta]

Borrowed from French flotte.

flota f (plural flotes)

1. crowd
2. (nautical) fleet
3. (botany) patch, cluster (of mushrooms)

• flotó

• flotar
• flotilla

• “flota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “flota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “flota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

flota

1. inflection of flotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Derived from German Flotte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈflota]

flota f

1. naval fleet

• loďstvo

• “flota”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “flota”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “flota”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

flota

1. indefinite accusative singular of floti
2. indefinite dative singular of floti
3. indefinite genitive singular of floti
4. indefinite accusative plural of floti
5. indefinite genitive plural of floti

From Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflo.tɑ/

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

1. sailor, shipman

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċipere

2. boat, ship

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

3. fleet

Weak:

• Middle English: flote
  • English: float
  • Scots: flote, flot

Borrowed from French flotte.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: flo‧ta

flota f (related adjective flotowy)

1. naval fleet
2. fleet (all the vehicles owned by a company or organization)
   • 2012 February 9, Regina Skibińska, “Ubezpieczenie floty samochodów: Jedna polisa OC dla całej firmowej floty”, in Rzeczpospolita‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 May 2022:

     Zakłady ubezpieczeń różnie definiują flotę pojazdów. Najczęściej ubezpieczyciele za flotę uważają 10 – 20 pojazdów, ale polityka towarzystw staje się coraz elastyczniejsza i można znaleźć oferty ubezpieczenia flotowego dla przedsiębiorstw dysponujących nawet pięcioma samochodami.

     Insurance companies define a group of vehicles differently. Most often, insurers consider a group to be 10 - 20 vehicles, but companies' policy is becoming more flexible, and you can find offers of group insurance for businesses using even five cars.

3. (slang, humorous) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze

• flota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French flotter.

• IPA^(key): [floˈta]

a flota (third-person singular present flotează, past participle flotat) 1st conjugation

1. to float

• IPA^(key): [ˈflota]

flota f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flotă

• IPA^(key): /flôta/
• Hyphenation: flo‧ta

flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)

1. fleet

• IPA^(key): /ˈflota/ [ˈflo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: flo‧ta

Borrowed from French flotte.

flota f (plural flotas)

1. fleet
2. (Latin America) crowd

flota

1. inflection of flotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “flota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024