portio

From the same root as pars, parcus, and parcō. It is from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“sell”), which also gave the Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”), and πέρνημι (pérnēmi, “sell”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ti.oː/, [ˈpɔr.ti.oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.t͡si.o/

portiō f (genitive portiōnis); third declension

1. share, part, portion
2. relation, proportion

Third-declension noun.

• portiōnālis
• portiuncula
• prōportiō

• pars

• portio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• portio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• portio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• portio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• portion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911