porta

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

porta (plural portae) (anatomy)

1. The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
2. The foramen of Monro.
   • 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:

     the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia

• “porta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• atrop-, Prato, aport, op art, trapo

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/, [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

porta

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾ.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Inherited from Old Catalan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

porta f (plural portes)

1. doorway, gateway
2. door

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porta

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

• “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “porta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

porta (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

• Audio:

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porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

• Prato

 

 

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾta/ [ˈpɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate

   Synonym: portal

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 886:

     quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entrada

     when they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through the gate, and they had to remove the doors and widen the entrance

4. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

porta

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈportɒ]
• Hyphenation: por‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

porta (plural porták)

1. parcel of land (with a house on it)
2. hotel reception, reception desk, front desk
3. (figuratively, colloquial) household, house (one's own home)

• portás

• porta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

porta

1. indefinite genitive plural of port

Learned borrowing from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through/over”), probably as a feminine nominalization of *pr-tó- (“passed (through), crossed”). Doublet of portal.

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

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

1. (anatomy) porta.
2. (computing) port.

• “porta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

porta (plural portas)

1. door

 

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

porta f (plural porte)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing) port
4. (soccer) goal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/, /ˈpor.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔrta, -orta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta, pór‧ta

porta f sg

1. feminine singular of porto (“(having) given, (having) handed”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

porta

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

• Prato, parto, potrà, prato, tarpo, tarpò

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

porta f

1. door

porta

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

 

From Proto-Italic *portā, from Proto-Indo-European *porteh₂, from *per- (“to pass through/over”). Cognate with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

1. gate, especially of a city
2. entrance, passage, door

   Synonyms: ingressus, līmen, initium, foris, iānua, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

3. (figuratively) way, means

First-declension noun.

Borrowings

Inflected form of portō (“carry, bear”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔrt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]

portā

1. singular present active imperative of portō

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], 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

porta m

1. genitive singular of ports

From Portuguese porta.

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porta

1. door

• porta-casa (“front door”)
• porta-trás (“back door”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

 

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

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

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 180:

     Se você não abrir a porta, vamos arrombá-la!

     If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!

2. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

3. (by extension) gateway
4. (by extension) solution

   Synonym: solução

5. (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porta

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

• “porta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

1. entrance

• purta (Gallo-italic of Sicily)
• potta (regressively assimilated, dialectal)
• puaitta, puajtta (iotacized, dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.ta/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾ.ta], [ˈpu-], [ˈpwe-], [ˈpwɔ-], [ˈpuɔ̯ɪ̯t.ta], [-t.ta], [puɔ̯ɪ̯-] (dialectal)
• Rhymes: -orta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Compare, for more, Galician, Portuguese, Italian, Corsican, and Neapolitan porta, Asturian and Spanish puerta.

porta f (plural porti)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing) port
4. (soccer) goal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/ [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: por‧ta

Borrowed from Latin porta. Doublet of puerta.

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole

   Synonyms: tronera, ventanilla

2. Obsolete spelling of puerta.

porta

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

• “porta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

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

1. to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)

   Han är portad från puben

   He's banned from the pub

• portera

• porta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• porta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• ropat