different between flotilla vs argosy

English

Etymology

From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flo??t?l?/
• Hyphenation: flo?til?la
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

flotilla (plural flotillas)

1. (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102:

     Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish flotilla.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /flu?ti.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /flo?ti.?a/

Noun

flotilla f (plural flotilles)

1. flotilla

Further reading

• “flotilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “flotilla” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “flotilla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “flotilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From flota +? -illa.

Pronunciation

Noun

flotilla f (plural flotillas)

1. fleet, flotilla

Descendants

• ? Catalan: flotilla
• ? English: flotilla
• ? French: flottille
• ? Italian: flottiglia
• ? Portuguese: flotilha

Further reading

• “flotilla” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.

Noun

argosy (plural argosies)

1. A merchant ship.
2. A merchant flotilla, fleet.
   • 1594, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:

     Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses, And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her, And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next.

3. An abundant supply, boatload.
   • 1921, Sir James George Frazer, Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library), volume I, Introduction, § 1: “The Author and His Book”, page xxxiii:

     Yet we may be grateful to him for saving for us from the wreck of ancient literature some waifs and strays which, but for his humble labours, might have sunk irretrievably with so many golden argosies in the fathomless ocean of the past.

Translations

Anagrams

• yorgas