portico

See also: Portico and pórtico

English

Portico

Etymology

From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/

Noun

portico (plural porticos or porticoes)

1. A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:

     The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• porticoed
• porticolike

Translations

small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building

• Aramaic: אסטוא‎ m

  Classical Syriac: ܐܙܓܐ‎ m, ܐܣܛܘܐ‎ m

• Bengali: রোয়াক (roẏak)
• Bulgarian: портик m (portik)
• Catalan: pòrtic m
• Danish: porticus c
• Dutch: portiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: portiko
• Finnish: portiikki (fi)
• French: portique (fr) m
• Galician: pórtico (gl) m
• German: Portikus (de) m or f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 f (ubizwa)
• Greek:

  Ancient: στοά f (stoá), αἴθουσα f (aíthousa)

• Hungarian: tornác (hu), előcsarnok (hu), oszlopos előtér, porticus
• Italian: portico (it) m, porticato (it) m, pronao (it) m
• Japanese: ポルチコ (poruchiko)
• Latin: porticus m, ambulātiō f
• Macedonian: по́ртик m (pórtik)
• Maori: kōihi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: portiko m

• Persian: ایوان‎ (fa) (eyvân), ستاوند‎ (fa) (setâvand)
• Polish: portyk (pl) m
• Portuguese: pórtico (pt) m
• Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik)
• Sanskrit: पिण्ड (sa) m or n (piṇḍa)
• Slovene: portik m
• Spanish: pórtico (es) m
• Swedish: portik (sv) c
• Turkish: revak (tr), sundurma (tr)

Anagrams

• porotic, prootic

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Italian

Portici (Bologna)

Etymology

From Latin porticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ti.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtiko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ti‧co

Noun

portico m (plural portici)

1. (architecture) portico, arcade, porch

   Synonym: pronao

Derived terms

• sottoportico

Related terms

• porticato
• porta

Descendants

• → Dutch: portico
• → English: portico
• → Finnish: portiikki

Anagrams

• -tropico, protico, tropico

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English portico, ultimately from Latin porticus.

Noun

portico m (plural porticos)

1. (Jersey) porch