flota

See also: flotá, flóta, and flotă

English

Etymology

From 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• aloft, float

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈflo̞.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈflɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈflɔ.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotes)

1. crowd
2. (nautical) fleet
3. (botany) patch, cluster (of mushrooms)

Derived terms

• flotó

Related terms

• flotar
• flotilla

Further reading

• “flota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “flota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “flota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “flota”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

1. inflection of flotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

Etymology

Derived from German Flotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈflota]

Noun

flota f

1. naval fleet

Declension

Declension of flota (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	flota	floty
genitive	floty	flot
dative	flotě	flotám
accusative	flotu	floty
vocative	floto	floty
locative	flotě	flotách
instrumental	flotou	flotami

See also

• loďstvo

Further reading

• “flota”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “flota”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “flota”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

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-West Germanic *flotō, from Proto-Germanic *flutô (“a float; raft; boat; ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Old Norse floti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflo.tɑ/
• Rhymes: -o.tɑ

Noun

flota m (nominative plural flotan)

1. sailor, shipman

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċipere

2. pirate
3. boat, ship

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip

4. fleet (of vessels)

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	flota	flotan
accusative	flotan	flotan
genitive	flotan	flotena
dative	flotan	flotum

Derived terms

• ǣġflota
• flotherġe
• flotlīċ
• flotmann
• flotsmere
• flotweġ
• ġeflota
• hærnflota
• sǣflota
• sċipflota
• unfriþflota
• wǣġflota

Related terms

• floterian

Descendants

• Middle English: flote
  • English: float
  • Scots: flote, flot

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French flotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔ.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: flo‧ta

Noun

flota f (related adjective flotowy)

1. naval fleet
2. fleet (all the vehicles owned by a company or organization)
   • 2012 February 9, Regina Skibińska, “Ubezpieczenie floty samochodów: Jedna polisa OC dla całej firmowej floty”, in Rzeczpospolita‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 May 2022:

     Zakłady ubezpieczeń różnie definiują flotę pojazdów. Najczęściej ubezpieczyciele za flotę uważają 10 – 20 pojazdów, ale polityka towarzystw staje się coraz elastyczniejsza i można znaleźć oferty ubezpieczenia flotowego dla przedsiębiorstw dysponujących nawet pięcioma samochodami.

     Insurance companies define a group of vehicles differently. Most often, insurers consider a group to be 10 - 20 vehicles, but companies' policy is becoming more flexible, and you can find offers of group insurance for businesses using even five cars.

3. (slang, humorous) money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pieniądze

Declension

Declension of flota

	singular	plural
nominative	flota	floty
genitive	floty	flot
dative	flocie	flotom
accusative	flotę	floty
instrumental	flotą	flotami
locative	flocie	flotach
vocative	floto	floty

Derived terms

noun

• admirał floty

Further reading

• “flota”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “flota”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [floˈta]

Verb

a flota (third-person singular present flotează, past participle flotat) 1st conjugation

1. to float

Conjugation

    conjugation of flota (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a flota
gerund			flotând
past participle			flotat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	flotez	flotezi	flotează	flotăm	flotați	flotează
	imperfect	flotam	flotai	flota	flotam	flotați	flotau
	simple perfect	flotai	flotași	flotă	flotarăm	flotarăți	flotară
	pluperfect	flotasem	flotaseși	flotase	flotaserăm	flotaserăți	flotaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să flotez	să flotezi	să floteze	să flotăm	să flotați	să floteze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		flotează			flotați
	negative		nu flota			nu flotați

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈflota]

Noun

flota f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of flotă

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flȍta f (Cyrillic spelling фло̏та)

1. fleet

Declension

Declension of flota

	singular	plural
nominative	flȍta	flote
genitive	flote	flȏtā
dative	floti	flotama
accusative	flotu	flote
vocative	floto	flote
locative	floti	flotama
instrumental	flotom	flotama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflota/ [ˈflo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: flo‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French flotte.

Noun

flota f (plural flotas)

1. fleet
2. (Latin America) crowd

Derived terms

• flota de altura
• flotilla

Etymology 2

Verb

flota

1. inflection of flotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “flota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025