flotilla
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flotilla (plural flotillas)
- (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102:
- Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians Codex entry:
- Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.
Home to 17 million quarians, the flotilla understandably has scarce resources. Because of this, each quarian must go on a rite of passage known as the Pilgrimage when they come of age. They leave the fleet and only return once they have found something of value they can bring back to their people.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102:
- (by extension) A small group of things or people
- 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Abandon Starbucks!”, in Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 74:
- After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags.
- 2021, Liz Trenow, The Secrets of the Lake:
- flotilla of tiny ducklings
Translations
[edit]small fleet
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish flotilla.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flotilla f (plural flotilles)
Further reading
[edit]- “flotilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “flotilla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “flotilla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “flotilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: flo‧ti‧lla
Noun
[edit]flotilla f (plural flotillas)
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: flotilla
- → English: flotilla
- → French: flottille
- → Italian: flottiglia
- → Portuguese: flotilha
Further reading
[edit]- “flotilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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