Puerto Rico

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Porto Rico

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish Puerto Rico (literally “Rich Port”). In English, the name is commonly pronounced and was formerly spelled Porto Rico; many other Spanish Puerto placenames were formerly also anglicized to Porto.^[1]

PronunciationEdit

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɹtəˈɹikoʊ/, [ˌpɔɹɾəˈɹikoʊ]
(Puerto Rican) IPA^(key): /ˌpwɛəɹtoʊˈɹikoʊ/

Proper nounEdit

Puerto Rico

A self-governing Commonwealth in the Caribbean which is a territory of the United States.
Synonyms: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (official name), PR (symbol)
The island comprising most of that territory.
The indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico was 'Borikén', which literally means "Land of the Valiant Lord".

Related termsEdit

Puerto Rican

TranslationsEdit

Caribbean Commonwealth

Arabic: بُورْتُو رِيكُو‎ m (burtū rīkū)
Armenian: Պուերտո Ռիկո (Puerto Ṙiko)
Breton: Puerto Rico (br)
Catalan: Puerto Rico (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 波多黎各 (bo¹ do¹ lai⁴ gok³)

Mandarin: 波多黎各 (zh) (Bōduōlígè)
Czech: Portorico n, Portoriko (cs) n
Danish: Puerto Rico (da)
Dutch: Puerto Rico (nl), Porto Rico
Esperanto: Portoriko, Puerto-Riko, Porto-Riko (eo)
Faroese: Puerto Riko
Finnish: Puerto Rico (fi)
French: Porto Rico (fr) m, Puerto Rico (fr) m
Galician: Porto Rico (gl) m
Georgian: პუერტო-რიკო (ṗuerṭo-riḳo)
German: Puerto Rico (de) n
Greek: Πουέρτο Ρίκο (el) n (Pouérto Ríko), Πόρτο Ρίκο n (Pórto Ríko)
Hawaiian: Pokoliko
Hebrew: פורטו ריקו‎ (porto riko)
Hungarian: Puerto Rico (hu)
Icelandic: Púertó Ríkó
Ido: Porto-Riko (io)
Interlingua: Puerto Rico

Italian: Porto Rico (it) m
Japanese: プエルトリコ (Puerutoriko)
Korean: 푸에르토리코 (ko) (Puereutoriko)
Latin: Portus Dives
Latvian: Puertoriko f
Lithuanian: Puerto Rikas (lt) m
Macedonian: Портори́ко n (Portoríko)
Maltese: Porto Riko
Norman: Puerto Rico m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Puerto Rico

Nynorsk: Puerto Rico
Polish: Portoryko (pl) n, Puerto Rico (pl) n
Portuguese: Porto Rico (pt)
Romanian: Porto Rico, Puerto Rico
Russian: Пуэ́рто-Ри́ко m (Puérto-Ríko)
Serbo-Croatian: Portoriko (sh) m, Porto Riko m
Slovak: Portoriko
Spanish: Puerto Rico (es) m
Swedish: Puerto Rico (sv)
Thai: ปวยร์โตริโก (bpuai-dtoo-rí-gôo)
Turkish: Porto Riko (tr)
Yoruba: Pọto Riko

ReferencesEdit

^ Examples include Portobelo, Panama (formerly called "Porto Bello" in English and "Puerto..." in Spanish); "Porto Cabello" (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela); and "Porto Principe" (Puerto Principe, the settlement which later moved and became Camagüey, Cuba).