flot – French noun declension

French noun forms of flot

Noun: flot
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mflot
Plural mflots

Sample Sentences

  • Un peu comme un bateau / J'avance face à la mer / Je navigue sur les flots (A bit like a boat / I move through the sea / I sail on the waves) [2014, Indila, Comme un bateau:]
  • J'ai reçu un flot de lettres. (I received a flood of letters.)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French flot (“considerable quantity of poured liquid, stream, flow”), from Old French flot (“mass of moving water, flood, tidal flow”), partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”) from Proto-Germanic *flutą (“body of water, flow”); partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); both from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”). Cognate with Old Dutch fluod (“river”), Old High German fluot (“flood”), Old English flōd (“river, flood”), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus, “river, stream”). More at fleuve, flood, flow. See: Old Norse Nouns 'flóð', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "flot"

English Nouns flote.

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