porta

See also: Porta, portá, portà, pòrta, porta-, and pörta

English

Etymology

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

Noun

porta (plural portae)

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

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

Related terms

• portal

References

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

Anagrams

• Prato, aport, atrop-, op art

Asturian

Verb

porta

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.ta/

• Audio (Catalonia)

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

porta f (plural portes)

1. doorway, gateway
2. door

Derived terms

• a porta oberta
• a porta tancada
• picaporta
• porta caladissa
• porta corredissa
• porta d'entrada
• porta giratòria
• porta tallafoc
• portell
• portella
• porter

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

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

References

• “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

porta

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

Anagrams

• Prato

Galician

St. Jame's church, Ribadavia

Porta, Castro de Vigo, Vigo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾta̝/

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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

   Synonym: portal

4. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

Related terms

• Porta
• portal
• porteiro
• portelo

Verb

porta

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

References

• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “porta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “porta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	porta	porták
accusative	portát	portákat
dative	portának	portáknak
instrumental	portával	portákkal
causal-final	portáért	portákért
translative	portává	portákká
terminative	portáig	portákig
essive-formal	portaként	portákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	portában	portákban
superessive	portán	portákon
adessive	portánál	portáknál
illative	portába	portákba
sublative	portára	portákra
allative	portához	portákhoz
elative	portából	portákból
delative	portáról	portákról
ablative	portától	portáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	portáé	portáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	portáéi	portákéi

Possessive forms of porta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	portám	portáim
2nd person sing.	portád	portáid
3rd person sing.	portája	portái
1st person plural	portánk	portáink
2nd person plural	portátok	portáitok
3rd person plural	portájuk	portáik

Derived terms

• portás

Further reading

• 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

Icelandic

Noun

porta

1. indefinite genitive plural of port

Indonesian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

Compounds

• porta inframerah
• porta panel datar digital
• porta permainan
• porta serial

 

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

porta (plural portas)

1. door

Italian

Porta (door)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural porte)

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

Related terms

• alle porte
• porta a porta
• portale
• porta USB
• portello
• porticina
• portico
• portiera
• portiere
• portinaio
• portone

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Participle

porta f sg

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

porta

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

Derived terms

• porta-

Anagrams

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

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

Noun

porta f

1. door

Ladin

Verb

porta

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

Latin

Porta Borsārī, Vērōnae

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• porta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]
• porta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]
• portā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔrt̪äː]
• portā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]

Noun

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porta	portae
Genitive	portae	portārum
Dative	portae	portīs
Accusative	portam	portās
Ablative	portā	portīs
Vocative	porta	portae

Derived terms

• porta itinerī longissima
• portārius
• portella
• porticus
• portō
• portōrium
• portula

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: poartã
  • Romanian: poartă
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: puerta
  • Galician: porta
  • Leonese: puerta
  • Mirandese: puorta
  • Portuguese: porta, portão
  • Spanish: puerta ⇒ portada
    • → Cebuano: pwerta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: porta
  • Dalmatian: puarta
  • Istriot: puorta
  • Italian: porta
  • Neapolitan: porta, puorta
  • Sicilian: porta
  • Venetian: porta
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: porta
  • Occitan: pòrta
• Oïl:
  • Bourguignon: pote
  • French: porte
  • Tourangeau: pourte
  • Walloon: poite
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: puarte
  • Romansch: porta
• Sardinian:
  • polta, porta, pota
• Derived forms:
  • ⇒ Latin: portāle (Medieval)
    • → English: portal
    • → Italian: portale
    • → Spanish: portal

Borrowings

• → Albanian: portë
• → Basque: borta
• → Byzantine Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
  • Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
  • Pontic Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
    • → Laz: პოტრა (p̌oťra), ფოტრა (poťra)
  • → Bulgarian: порта (porta)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: поръта (porŭta)
• → English: porta (learned)
• → Esperanto: pordo
• → Ido: pordo
• → Old Dutch: porta
  • Middle Dutch: porte
    • Dutch: poort
• → Old English: port
  • Middle English: port
    • English: port
    • Scots: port
• → Old High German: pforta
  • German: Pforte
• → Old Norse: port
  • Danish: port
  • Swedish: port
    • → Finnish: portti
• → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Classical)

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Verb

portā

1. singular present active imperative of portō

References

• “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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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

Latvian

Noun

porta m

1. genitive singular form of ports

Portuguese

Porta

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɻ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/

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

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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)

Derived terms

• ao pé da porta
• à porta fechada
• burro como uma porta
• dar com a porta na cara
• falar com uma porta
• porta aberta
• porta de água
• porta do cavalo
• porta giratória
• portinha (diminutive)
• portona (augmentative)
• surdo como uma porta

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

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

Further reading

• “porta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

1. entrance

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole
2. Obsolete spelling of puerta

Derived terms

• vena porta

 

Verb

porta

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

Further reading

• “porta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

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

Verb

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of porta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	porta		portas
Supine	portat		portats
Imperative	porta		—
Imper. plural1	porten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	portar	portade	portas	portades
Ind. plural1	porta	portade	portas	portades
Subjunctive2	porte	portade	portes	portades
	Participles
Present participle	portande
Past participle	portad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

• portera

Anagrams

• ropat