porta

See also: Porta, portá, portà, pòrta, and porta-

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (a gate). See port.

Noun

porta (plural portae)

  1. (anatomy) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
  2. (anatomy) The foramen of Monro.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of B. G. Wilder to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for porta in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams


Asturian

Verb

porta

  1. inflection of portar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tə/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.tə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾ.ta/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (to pass through)

Noun

porta f (plural portes)

  1. door

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

porta

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of portar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of portar

Further reading


Crimean Tatar

Noun

porta

  1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

French

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

porta

  1. third-person singular past historic of porter

Anagrams


Galician

St. Jame's church, Ribadavia

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾta̝/

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

  1. door
  2. gate
    Synonym: portal
  3. entrance
    Synonym: entrada

Antonyms

Verb

porta

  1. inflection of portar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  • porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • porta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • porta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • porta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈportɒ]
  • Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta (plural porták)

  1. port (gate)
  2. parcel of land (with a house on it)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative porta porták
accusative portát portákat
dative portának portáknak
instrumental portával portákkal
causal-final portáért portákért
translative portává portákká
terminative portáig portákig
essive-formal portaként portákként
essive-modal
inessive portában portákban
superessive portán portákon
adessive portánál portáknál
illative portába portákba
sublative portára portákra
allative portához portákhoz
elative portából portákból
delative portáról portákról
ablative portától portáktól
Possessive forms of porta
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. portám portáim
2nd person sing. portád portáid
3rd person sing. portája portái
1st person plural portánk portáink
2nd person plural portátok portáitok
3rd person plural portájuk portáik

Icelandic

Noun

porta

  1. indefinite genitive plural of port

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta.

Noun

porta (plural porta-porta, first-person possessive portaku, second-person possessive portamu, third-person possessive portanya)

  1. (anatomy, computing) port.

Interlingua

Noun

porta (plural portas)

  1. door

Interlingue

Noun

porta

  1. door

Italian

Porta (door)

Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (to pass through)

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrta

Noun

porta f (plural porte)

  1. gate
  2. door
  3. (computing) port

Etymology 2

Inflected form of portare.

Verb

porta

  1. inflection of portare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
Derived terms

Anagrams


Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin porta (gate, entrance).

Noun

porta f

  1. Italiot dialect form of πόρτα (pórta)

Ladin

Verb

porta

  1. inflection of porter:
    1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Porta Borsārī, Vērōnae

Etymology 1

From the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (to pass through). Confer with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, means of passage).

Pronunciation

  • porta: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔr.ta]
  • porta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/
  • (file)
  • portā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔr.taː]
  • portā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/
  • (file)

Noun

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

  1. gate, especially of a city
  2. entrance, passage, door
  3. (figuratively) way, means
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative porta portae
Genitive portae portārum
Dative portae portīs
Accusative portam portās
Ablative portā portīs
Vocative porta portae
Derived terms
Descendants

See also

Noun

portā

  1. ablative singular of porta

References

  • porta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • porta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • porta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
    • to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
    • to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis
    • to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere
    • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
  • porta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • porta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • porta in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 2

Inflected form of portō (carry, bear)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔr.taː]
  • (file)

Verb

portā

  1. singular present active imperative of portō

Latvian

Noun

porta m

  1. genitive singular form of ports

Novial

Verb

porta (past portad, active participle portant, passive participle portat)

  1. to carry, to bring

Portuguese

Porta

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (to pass through)

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɔχ.tɐ/, /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɔh.tɐ/, /ˈpɔ.ʈɐ/
  • Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

  1. door
  2. entrance
  3. (by extension) gateway
  4. (by extension) solution
  5. (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

porta

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of portar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of portar

Further reading

  • porta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

  1. entrance

Declension

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Spanish

Verb

porta

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of portar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of portar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of portar.

Swedish

Etymology

Shortening of portförbjuda from port (entrance, gateway, door) and förbjuda (prohibit, forbid).

Verb

porta (present portar, preterite portade, supine portat, imperative porta)

  1. to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar

Conjugation

See also

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