fleet (group of ships or watergoing vessels) · navy (a country's entire fleet of military ships) · shipping (body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry)
çekim: çoğul laivastot · tamlayan laivaston
köken: laiva (“ship”) + -sto (collective noun suffix)
any one of the five divisions into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman citizenry · the armed forces · fleet
çekim: çoğul classēs · tamlayan classium
köken: From Proto-Italic *klāssis, from Proto-Indo-European *klh₁-d⁽ʰ⁾-ti- (“a call”), from *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Cognate with Latin calō, clāmō, clārus, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō). De Vaan notes that simplification of the Proto-Italic *-ss- would be expected following long *-ā-. He suggests that, semantically, the term evolved from referring to a “calling out” to a “class of soldiers…
raft (a floating timber platform or an inflatable rubber boat) · fleet (a group of vessels)
çekim: çoğul flåder · tamlayan flådes
köken: From Old Danish flodhe, from Old Norse floti, from Proto-Germanic *flutô (“float, raft”), cognate with Norwegian flåte, Swedish flotte, English float, German Flosse (“fin”). In the sense "fleet", the word has been influenced by French flotte (which is itself a loan from Germanic).