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Old English · noun

flota

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
weak
IPA
/ˈflo.tɑ/
Syllables
ˈflo · tɑ (2 syllables)
Modern English
vesselssailorfloatshipman

Meaning

  1. sailor, shipman

  2. pirate

  3. boat, ship

  4. fleet (of vessels)

Declension

Declension of flota
SingularPlural
Nominative flotaflotan
Accusative flotanflotan
Genitive flotanflotena
Dative flotanflotum

All forms (4)

Etymology

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

Descendants

float

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