portable

Borrowed from Middle French portable, or from Latin portabilis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbəl/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbl̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/, /ˈpɔɹtəbl̩/, [ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
• Hyphenation: por‧ta‧ble

portable (comparative more portable, superlative most portable)

1. Able to be carried or easily moved.
2. Able to be transferred from one organization to another.

   a portable pension plan

3. (computing) Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
   • 2012, Herbert Schildt, C++: A Beginner's Guide, Second Edition, page 6:

     How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?

4. (computing) Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
   • 2014, Bertrand Dufrasne, ‎Bruce Allworth, ‎Desire Brival, IBM XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperability (page 10)

     Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.

• hand-held
• transportable

portable (plural portables)

1. A portable building used for temporary purposes, particularly:
   1. Clipping of portable toilet.
   2. A trailer or other movable structure used for classes at a school.
2. (computing) Clipping of portable computer.
   • 1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii:

     A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.

   • 1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 20, page 71:

     Compaq portables have grown lighter and more powerful since then. Their newest luggable, the Compaq Portable III, is six times more powerful and 10 pounds lighter than the original model.

3. (video games) A hand-held video gaming device.

• (facility for urination and defecation): See Thesaurus:bathroom

• tropable

Borrowed from Latin portābilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [purˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [porˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [poɾˈta.ble]

portable m or f (masculine and feminine plural portables)

1. portable

   Synonym: portàtil

• portar

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

Borrowed from Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, porter +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.tabl/

• Audio

  (file)

portable (plural portables)

1. portable

• téléphone portable
• ordinateur portable

• portatif

La fonction principale des portables (1) est de téléphoner.

Travail sur un portable. (2)

portable m (plural portables)

1. a mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone portable.
2. a laptop; Ellipsis of ordinateur portable.

   Synonym: ordinateur portable m

• (mobile phone): mobile m, téléphone portable m, cellulaire m (Quebec), cell, téléphone mobile, téléphone cellulaire

• “portable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin portabilis.

• Audio

  (file)

portable m (feminine singular portabla, masculine plural portables, feminine plural portablas)

1. portable

• portar

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 769.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin portābilis; equivalent to portar +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈtable/ [poɾˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: por‧ta‧ble

portable m or f (masculine and feminine plural portables)

1. portable

   Synonym: portátil

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