different between flotilla vs escadrille

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

Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).

Noun

escadrille (plural escadrilles)

1. A small squadron.
2. (historical, military) A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Lafayette Escadrille

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French escadrille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.ka??dri.j?/
• Hyphenation: es?ca?dril?le

Noun

escadrille f or n (plural escadrilles)

1. escadrille, small squadron; especially of aeroplanes

Related terms

• eskader

French

Etymology

From Spanish escuadrilla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s.ka.d?ij/

Noun

escadrille f (plural escadrilles)

1. squadron (of airplanes)
2. flotilla

Descendants

• ? Danish: eskadrille
• ? Dutch: escadrille
• ? English: escadrille

Further reading

• “escadrille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).