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語源 1

動詞

flote

1. simple past of flite.

語源 2

Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).

名詞

flote (plural flotes)

1. (obsolete) A wave.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:

     Ar. […] and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
     (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
     And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
     Bound ſadly home for Naples,
     Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
     And his great perſon periſh.

語源 3

動詞

flote (third-person singular simple present flotes, present participle floting, simple past and past participle floted)

1. To fleet; to skim.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     seald their Milk before they flote it

アナグラム

• TOEFL

名詞

flote

1. Alternative form of flouter

語源 2

Inherited from 古期英語 flota (“ship, fleet”), from Proto-Germanic *flutô, with semantic broadening from the conflated flete homonyms and 古期英語 flot (from Proto-Germanic *flutą (“body of water”)), and semantic loan from Old French flote (cognate wth 古期英語 flota).

別の表記

• floote, fflote, flot

発音

• IPA: /ˈflɔːt(ə)/

名詞

flote (plural flotes)

1. Something that floats; a float or boat.
2. A fleet; a collection or grouping of vessels.
3. A group, band or mass of soldiers or fighters.
4. The condition of floating; flotation.
5. (rare) A mass or group of animals.
6. (rare) A body of water or mass of liquid.

関連する語

• floten

派生した語

• English: float
• Scots: flote, flot

参照

• “flōte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.

語源 3

動詞

flote

1. Alternative form of floten