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Latin
Etymology
An archaic collateral form of puer (“a boy in attendance”, “a servant”, “a slave”).
Pronunciation
- -pŏr
- -pōr
Noun
-pō̆r m (genitive -pōris); third declension
- suffixed to the genitive of the master’s name, forms names of male slaves: “—’s boy” = servus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
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References
- “por”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- por² in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.