portal
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin portale, from porta.
Pronunciation
Noun
portal (plural portals)
- An entrance, entry point, or means of entry.
- The local library, a portal of knowledge.
- (Internet) A website or page that acts as an entrance to other websites or pages on the Internet.
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
- (anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.
- (fiction) A magical or technological doorway leading to another location, period in time or dimension.
- (architecture) A lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- (architecture) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of an apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- A grandiose and often lavish entrance.
- Milton
- Thick with sparkling orient gems / The portal shone.
- Milton
- (bridge-building) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
Hyponyms
- (elevated corridor permitting access to a plane from an airport): See jet bridge
Derived terms
Translations
grandiose entrance
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entry point
website
vein
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Adjective
portal (not comparable)
Derived terms
Further reading
Portals on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Catalan
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese portal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Medieval Latin portalis, from Latin porta (“gate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poɾˈtal/
Noun
portal m (plural portais)
- portal
- 1395, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:
- seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume
- being the Council of the aforementioned town of A Coruña reunited by announcement at the portal of the church of Saint James of the mentioned town, as they have as customary usage
- seendo o Conçello da dicta vila da Crunna ajuntado por pregon en o portal da iglesia de Santiago da dicta vila. segundo que an de huso et de costume
- Synonym: pórtico
- 1395, M. González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 555:
- porch, portico
- 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:
- que façades ẽna dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello
- you must build at that house two porches, with their doors and their roofs, on the Sequelo street
- que façades ẽna dita cassa dous portaes cõ súas portas et alpénderes contra a rrúa do Çiqueello
- 1390, M. L. Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 64:
- gate
- Synonym: cancela
- hall
References
- “portal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “portal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “portal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “portal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “portal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Middle French
Etymology
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Occitan
Alternative forms
- portau (Gascon, Provençal, Limousin, Auvernhat, Vivaro-Alpine)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /puɾˈtal/
Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
portal m (oblique plural portaus or portax or portals, nominative singular portaus or portax or portals, nominative plural portal)
- gate (doorlike structure usually outside of a building or property)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portal)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.tal/
audio (file)
Declension
declension of portal
declension of portal
Portuguese
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pǒrtaːl/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /porˈtal/, [porˈt̪al]
- Hyphenation: por‧tal
See also
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