# frota
## Asturian
### Verb

frota
* inflection of frotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese frota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfɾɔtɐ]

### Noun

frota f (plural frotas)
* fleet
** 1702, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Pois que sempre algún malsín:Toda â Frota vin arder, vin volto en Volcan ô mar, lume na agua encender, homes no Aire correr, leños no fogo nadar.All the fleet I saw burn, I saw, turned into Vulcan the sea, fires on the water light men in the air run logs in the fire swim

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “frota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “frota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “frota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “frota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). First attested in the 13th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾɔta/

### Noun

frota f (plural frotas)
* fleet
** 1344, Xulián Maure Rivas, editor, Documentos medievais de Santa María de Baiona (1274-1531), page 36:que chegara a esta uilla a frota del rey de Portugal, quando auýa gerra con nosso sseñor el rey de Castela, et que queimara esta dita billa et a cassa en que moraua,that the fleet of the king of Portugal arrived to this town [Baiona, Galicia], when he was at war with our lord the king of Castile, and it burned this aforementioned town and the house were he used to live

#### Descendants

* Galician: frota
* Portuguese: frota

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “frota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “frota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French flotte, from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾɔ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
* Hyphenation: fro‧ta

### Noun

frota f (plural frotas)
* fleet

## Spanish
### Verb

frota
* inflection of frotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative