porto

porto (plural portos)

1. An aperitif made from port

• porto français

• Proto, Troop, proot, proto, proto-, troop, tropo-

porto m (plural portos)

1. (Eonavian) Alternative form of puertu

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of portar

Loanword from Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.toː/
• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural porti or porto's)

1. the postage due for having a letter or package transported and delivered by a postal service

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.to/

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porto m (plural portos)

1. port wine

• “porto” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese porto, from Latin portus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoɾt̪ʊ]

porto m (plural portos)

1. port, harbour
2. ford
   • 1264, E. Portela Silva (ed.), La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 364:

     pelo camino que vay peraa devesa de valadares asy como vay o porto do rrio u pasan os carros

     by the road that goes to the wood of Valadares as it goes by the ford of the river where the carts cross

3. pass, defile
4. port wine

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

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

From Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from the root *per- (“to go forth”, “to cross”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrto/, [ˈpɔr̺.t̪o]

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• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. port, harbour
2. port (beverage)
3. carriage

• → Romanian: port

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portare

porto m (feminine singular porta, masculine plural porti, feminine plural porte)

1. past participle of porgere

• porto di mare
• porto d'armi

• potrò, tropo

From Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”), either as *pr̥-to- or *por-to-, perhaps from a noun having the sense of "way" or "passage". Related to Ancient Greek πείρω (peírō, “I pierce, traverse”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.toː/, [ˈpɔr.toː]

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portō (present infinitive portāre, perfect active portāvī, supine portātum); first conjugation

1. I carry, bear
2. I convey, bring

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• (carry, bear): ferō, gerō, vehō
• (convey, bring): vehō

• porto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• porto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
    
• porto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Italian porto; compare with German Porto.

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoer, definite plural portoene)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian porto

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoar, definite plural portoane)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• pôrto (obsolete, noun only)

Noun:

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoχ.tu/, /ˈpoɾ.tu/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoh.tu/

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• Homophone: Porto

Verb:

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔχ.tu/, /ˈpɔɾ.tu/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔh.tu/

From Old Portuguese porto, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

porto m (plural portos)

1. port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
2. port (city containing such a place)
3. (figuratively) haven (place of safety)

• chegar a bom porto, levar a bom porto

porto m (plural portos)

1. Clipping of vinho do Porto.

See the etymology of the main entry.

porto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of portar

porto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of portar.