portaticum

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Depending on the sense, either from portus (harbour) or porta (gate) +‎ -āticum. Attested from 681 CE.[1]

Noun

portāticum n (genitive portāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. gate tax
  2. harbor tax

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative portāticum portātica
genitive portāticī portāticōrum
dative portāticō portāticīs
accusative portāticum portātica
ablative portāticō portāticīs
vocative portāticum portātica

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “portaticus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 815