Noun: frota
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | frota |
| Plural f | frotas |
Sample Sentences
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Toda â Frota vin arder,
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vin volto en Volcan ô mar,
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lume na agua encender,
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homes no Aire correr,
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leños no fogo nadar. (All the fleet I saw burn,
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I saw, turned into Vulcan the sea,
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fires on the water light
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men in the air run
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logs in the fire swim) [1702, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, Pois que sempre algún malsín:]
Nouns inflected like frota
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese frota (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
frota', Old Norse Nouns '
floti'.
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