portus

See also: Portus

Esperanto

Verb

portus

1. conditional of porti

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Cognates include Northern Kurdish pir (“bridge”), Russian пере́ть (perétʹ, “push forward”), Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”) and Old English ford (English ford). See also porta.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪us]
• Homophone: Portus

Noun

portus m (genitive portūs); fourth declension

1. harbor, port
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.863:

     venīmus in portum

     We are approaching the port

2. haven, refuge, asylum, retreat
3. warehouse

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	portus	portūs
Genitive	portūs	portuum
Dative	portuī	portibus
Accusative	portum	portūs
Ablative	portū	portibus
Vocative	portus	portūs

Derived terms

• angiportus
• Argōus Portus
• portitor
• Portus
• Portus Magnus
• Portūnus

 

Descendants

• Corsican: portu

  Gallurese: poltu

• Italian: porto
  • → Romanian: port
  • →⇒ Slavomolisano: lupuort
• Neapolitan: puorto
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: puertu, puerto, puirtu, puorto, puörtu, porto
• Old Occitan: port
  • Catalan: port
  • Occitan: pòrt
• Old Galician-Portuguese: porto
  • Galician: porto
  • Portuguese: porto
• Old Spanish: puerto
  • Spanish: puerto
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: puart
  • Ladin: port
  • Romansch: port
• Sardinian: poltu, portu
• Sicilian: portu
• Venetian: porto
• → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: port
  • French: port
    • → Romanian: port
  • Norman: port
  • → Middle High German: port
    • German: Port
      • → Russian: порт (port)
• → Faroese: portur
• → Proto-West Germanic: *port (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: port (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Polish: port (learned)
  • Masurian: port
  • Polish: port
    • → Kashubian: pòrt

References

• “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• portus 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)
• portus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
    
  • the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
    
  • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • to be unable to land: portu, terra prohiberi (B. C. 3. 15)
    
  • to keep the coast and harbours in a state of blockade: litora ac portus custodia clausos tenere
    
• “portus”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN