flote

See also: floté, flöte, Flöte, and fløte

English

Etymology 1

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, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2
      [...] they all have met again, / And are upon the Mediterranean flote / Bound sadly home for Naples [...]
Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

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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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

flote

  1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

Middle English

Noun

flote (plural flotes or floten)

  1. Alternative form of floute

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse floti.

Alternative forms

Noun

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

  1. raft
  2. fleet

Etymology 2

Verb

flote

  1. past participle of flyta

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)

Spanish

Noun

flote m (plural flotes)

  1. floatation (action and effect of floating)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

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.
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