# flote
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fləʊt/
* Rhymes: -əʊt
* Homophone: float

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

flote
* simple past of flite.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

flote (plural flotes)
* (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.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

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

### Anagrams

* TOEFL

## Dutch
### Verb

flote
* (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of fluiten

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

flote
* Alternative form of flouter

### Etymology 2

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).

#### Alternative forms

* floote, fflote, flot

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

#### Noun

flote (plural flotes)
* Something that floats; a float or boat.
* A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
* A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
* The condition of floating; flotation.
* (rare) A mass or group of animals.
* (rare) A body of water or mass of liquid.

##### Related terms

* floten

##### Descendants

* English: float
* Scots: flote, flot

##### References

* “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

flote
* Alternative form of floten

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse floti.

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Noun

flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)
* raft
* fleet
* big man

##### Derived terms

* fiskeflote
* handelsflote
* krigsflote
* redningsflote

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

flote
* past participle of flyta

## Old French
### Etymology

Germanic, compare English float.

### Noun

flote oblique singular, f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)
* fleet (collection of several watercraft)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈflote]

### Noun

flote f
* inflection of flotă:
** indefinite plural
** indefinite genitive/dative singular

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflote/ [ˈflo.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ote
* Syllabification: flo‧te

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from flotar.

#### Noun

flote m (plural flotes)
* floatation (action and effect of floating)
    Synonyms: flotadura, flotación

##### Derived terms

* a flote (afloat)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

flote
* inflection of flotar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10