portoir
English
editEtymology
editOld French, from porter (“to carry, to bear”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editportoir (plural portoirs)
- (obsolete) One who, or that which, bears or produces.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
- branches […] which were portoirs, and bare[sic] grapes
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “portoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editOld French
editNoun
editportoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural portoirs, nominative singular portoirs, nominative plural portoir)
- stretcher (tool used for carry people or objects)
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (portoir)