different between spanish vs flota

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?n'?sh, IPA^(key): /?spæn.??/
• Rhymes: -æn??

Verb

spanish (third-person singular simple present spanishes, present participle spanishing, simple past and past participle spanished)

1. (printing) To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material

Anagrams

• phasins

English

Etymology

Spanish. See flotilla.

Noun

flota (plural flotas)

1. 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• aloft, float

Catalan

Etymology

From French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotes)

1. crowd
2. fleet

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.
• “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.

Czech

Etymology

From German Flotte.

Noun

flota f

1. naval fleet

Further reading

• flota in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• flota in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Icelandic

Noun

flota

1. indefinite accusative singular of floti
2. indefinite dative singular of floti
3. indefinite genitive singular of floti
4. indefinite accusative plural of floti
5. indefinite genitive plural of floti

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flo.t?/

Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

1. sailor
2. ship

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: float
• Scots: flote

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?.ta/

Noun

flota f

1. naval fleet
2. (slang, humorous) money

Declension

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?flota]

Noun

flota f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flot?

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flôta/
• Hyphenation: flo?ta

Noun

fl?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. fleet

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flota/, [?flo.t?a]

Etymology 1

From French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotas)

1. fleet
2. (Latin America) crowd

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of flotar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of flotar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of flotar.

Further reading

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