Porto

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See also: porto, portó, portò, pôrto, and Pôrto

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto

  • (wine): the name of the city whence it was exported.

Proper noun

Porto

  2. A city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal
  4. A district in northern Portugal

Derived terms

Noun

Porto (plural Portos)

  1. port wine
  2. by extension, generic port wine, wine of the style of Porto
  3. by extension, fortified wine

Hypernyms

Anagrams

Catalan

Proper noun

Porto ?

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

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French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Porto f

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

Galician

Etymology

From porto (“pass; ford; harbour”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. a large number of villages and parishes throughout Galicia
  2. a toponymical surname
  3. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

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References

  • “Porto” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • “Porto” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Porto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔʁto/
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Noun

Porto n

  1. postage (charge)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Porto” in Duden online
  • “Porto” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Old Galician-Portuguese

Proper noun

Porto

  1. A city in northern Portugal.

Descendants

  • Portuguese: Porto

Further reading

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Porto

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto, from Old Galician-Portuguese Porto, from Latin Portus (Cale), from portus (“port”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Porto n (indeclinable)

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

Related terms

noun

Further reading

  • Porto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Porto
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Porto, from Latin Portus (Cale) (modern city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus (“port”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)
    Cidade do Porto ― City of Porto
  2. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “Porto” in Dicionário infopédia de Toponímia. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
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