Noun: frota
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | frota |
| Plural f | frotas |
Sample Sentences
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que chegara a esta uilla a frota del rey de Portugal, quando auýa gerra con nosso sseñor el rey de Castela, et que queimara esta dita billa et a cassa en que moraua, (that the fleet of the king of Portugal arrived to this town [Baiona, Galicia], when he was at war with our lord the king of Castile, and it burned this aforementioned town and the house were he used to live) [1344, Xulián Maure Rivas, editor, Documentos medievais de Santa María de Baiona (1274-1531), page 36:]
Nouns inflected like frota
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”). First attested in the 13th century. See: Old Norse Nouns '
floti'.
Verbs referencing "frota"
Galician Nouns
frota.
Translations