frota – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of frota

Noun: frota
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular ffrota
Plural ffrotas

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]

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.

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