porta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“a gate”). See port.

Noun

porta (plural portae)

1. (anatomy) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
2. (anatomy) The foramen of Monro.
   • 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:

     the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia

Related terms

• portal

References

• “porta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Prato, aport, atrop-, op art

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/,
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio (Catalonia)

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Noun

porta f (plural portes)

1. doorway, gateway
2. door

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “porta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

porta (accusative , plural )

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

Anagrams

• Prato

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾta/
• Rhymes: -ɔɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate

   Synonym: portal

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 886:

     quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entrada

     when they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through the gate, and they had to remove the doors and widen the entrance

4. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

Related terms

• Porta
• portal
• porteiro
• portelo

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “porta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “porta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: por‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

porta (plural porták)

1. parcel of land (with a house on it)
2. hotel reception, reception desk, front desk
3. (figuratively, colloquial) household, house (one's own home)

Declension

Derived terms

• portás

References

Further reading

• porta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

porta

1. indefinite genitive plural of port

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through/over”), probably as a feminine nominalization of *pr-tó- (“passed (through), crossed”). Doublet of portal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta (plural porta-porta, first-person possessive portaku, second-person possessive portamu, third-person possessive portanya)

1. (anatomy) porta.
2. (computing) port.

Compounds

Further reading

• “porta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

porta (plural portas)

1. door

Italian

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Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural porte)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing) port
4. (soccer) goal

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/, /ˈpor.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta, -orta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta, pór‧ta

Participle

porta f sg

1. feminine singular of porto (“(having) given, (having) handed”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

Anagrams

• Prato, parto, potrà, prato, tarpo, tarpò

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

Noun

porta f

1. door

Ladin

Verb

porta

1. inflection of porter:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *portā, from Proto-Indo-European *porteh₂, from *per- (“to pass through/over”). Cognate with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/,

Noun

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

1. gate, especially of a city
2. entrance, passage, door

   Synonyms: ingressus, līmen, initium, foris, iānua, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

3. (figuratively) way, means

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Borrowings

Etymology 2

Inflected form of portō (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.taː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/,

Verb

portā

1. singular present active imperative of portō

References

• “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta 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)
• porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
    
  • to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
    
  • to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis
    
  • to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere
    
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
    
• “porta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “porta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

porta m

1. genitive singular of ports

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 180:

     Se você não abrir a porta, vamos arrombá-la!

     If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!

2. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

3. (by extension) gateway
4. (by extension) solution

   Synonym: solução

5. (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “porta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

1. entrance

Declension

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: por‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin porta. Doublet of puerta.

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole
2. Obsolete spelling of puerta

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “porta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Shortening of portförbjuda, from port (“entrance, gateway, door”) and förbjuda (“prohibit, forbid”).

Verb

porta (present portar, preterite portade, supine portat, imperative porta)

1. to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)

   Han är portad från puben

   He's banned from the pub

Conjugation

See also

• portera

References

• porta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• porta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ropat