flote

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

flote

1. simple past of flite.

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

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

1. To fleet; to skim.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), 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

• TOEFL

flote

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

flote

1. alternative form of flouter

Inherited from Old English flota (“ship, fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with semantic broadening from the conflated flete homonyms and Old English flot (from Proto-Germanic *flutą (“body of water”)), and semantic loan from Old French flote (cognate wth Old English flota).

• floote, fflote, flot

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

flote (plural flotes)

2. Something that floats; a float or boat.
3. A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
4. A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
5. The condition of floating; flotation.
6. (rare) A mass or group of animals.
7. (rare) A body of water or mass of liquid.

• floten

• English: float
• Scots: flote, flot

• “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 October 2018.

flote

1. alternative form of floten

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

From Old Norse floti.

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

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

1. raft
2. fleet
3. big man

flote

1. past participle of flyta

Germanic, compare English float.

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

1. fleet (collection of several watercraft)

• IPA^(key): [ˈflote]

flote f

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

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

Deverbal from flotar.

flote m (plural flotes)

1. floatation (action and effect of floating)

   Synonyms: flotadura, flotación

flote

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

• “flote”, 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