frota

Meaning

fleet

Hyphenated as

fro‧ta

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɾɔ.tɐ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French flotte, from Old French flote, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).

Sentences

A perda do cruzador foi um golpe para a frota .

The loss of the cruiser was a blow to the fleet.