# flota
## English
### Etymology

From Spanish. See flotilla.

### Noun

flota (plural flotas)
* 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.

### References

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

### Anagrams

* aloft, float

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈflɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈflɔ.ta]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

#### Noun

flota f (plural flotes)
* crowd
* (nautical) fleet
* (botany) patch, cluster (of mushrooms)

##### Derived terms

* flotó

##### Related terms

* flotar
* flotilla

#### Further reading

* “flota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

flota
* inflection of flotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Czech
### Etymology

Derived from German Flotte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈflota]

### Noun

flota f
* naval fleet

#### See also

* loďstvo

### Further reading

* “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

## Icelandic
### Noun

flota
* indefinite accusative singular of floti
* indefinite dative singular of floti
* indefinite genitive singular of floti
* indefinite accusative plural of floti
* indefinite genitive plural of floti

## Old English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflo.tɑ/

### Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)
* sailor, shipman
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċipere
* boat, ship
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip
* fleet

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* ǣġflota
* flotherge
* flotlic
* flotman
* flotweg
* geflota
* hærnflota
* sǣflota
* scipflota
* unfriþflota
* wǣġflota

#### Descendants

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French flotte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔ.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔta
* Syllabification: flo‧ta

### Noun

flota f (related adjective flotowy)
* naval fleet
* 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, archived from the original on 2022-05-30: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.
* (slang, humorous) money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze

#### Derived terms

* admirał floty

### References

* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “flota”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotter.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [floˈta]

#### Verb

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

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈflota]

#### Noun

flota f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of flotă

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flôta/
* Hyphenation: flo‧ta

### Noun

flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)
* fleet

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflota/ [ˈflo.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: flo‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

#### Noun

flota f (plural flotas)
* fleet
* (Latin America) crowd

##### Derived terms

* flota de altura
* flotilla

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

flota
* inflection of flotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10