different between frote vs flote
frote
English
Etymology
French frotter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???t/
Verb
frote (third-person singular simple present frotes, present participle froting, simple past and past participle froted)
- (obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour
- Let a Man sweat once a week in a Hot-house, and be well rubb'd, and froted, with a good plump juicy Wench
- 1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrams
- She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps
She loves exceedingly; She tufts her heare , she frotes her face
- She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps
- 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour
Anagrams
- Foret, Forte, fetor, forte, ofter
Asturian
Verb
frote
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of frotar
Spanish
Verb
frote
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of frotar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of frotar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of frotar.
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- fronted adverbial
flote
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fl??t/
- Homophone: float
Etymology 1
Verb
flote
- simple past tense of flite.
Etymology 2
Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).
Noun
flote (plural flotes)
- (obsolete) A wave.
Translations
Etymology 3
Verb
flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)
- To fleet; to skim.
Anagrams
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Dutch
Verb
flote
- (archaic) singular past subjunctive of fluiten
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
flote
- Alternative form of flouter
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old English flota (“fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with influence from Old English flot (from Proto-Germanic *flut?) and Old French flote (from the same Germanic root as the two Old English terms)
Alternative forms
- floote, fflote, flot
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl??t(?)/
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 or mass of liquid.
Related terms
- floten
Descendants
- English: float
- Scots: flote, flot
References
- “fl?te, 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
Etymology 1
From Old Norse floti.
Alternative forms
- flåte
Noun
flote m (definite singular floten, indefinite plural flotar, definite plural flotane)
- raft
- fleet
Etymology 2
Verb
flote
- past participle of flyta
Old French
Etymology
Germanic, compare English float.
Noun
flote f (oblique plural flotes, nominative singular flote, nominative plural flotes)
- fleet (collection of several watercraft)
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?flote]
Noun
flote f
- indefinite plural of flot?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of flot?
Spanish
Noun
flote m (plural flotes)
- floatation (action and effect of floating)
- Synonyms: flotadura, flotación
Derived terms
- a flote (afloat)
Verb
flote
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of flotar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of flotar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of flotar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of flotar.
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