portar

From Latin portāre, present active infinitive of portō (“bring, carry”).

portar (first-person singular indicative present porto, past participle portáu)

1. to act (to behave in a certain way)

Inherited from Old Catalan portar, from Latin portāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [purˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [porˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [poɾˈtaɾ]

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portí, past participle portat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to carry

   Porta les maletes.

   He carries the suitcase.

2. to bring

   Porta un entrepà per a tu!

   Bring a sandwich with you!

3. to wear

   Porto una samarreta blava.

   I wear a blue T-shirt.

4. (reflexive) to behave, to act

   Synonyms: comportar-se, captenir-se

• emportar-se
• portejador

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese portar, from Latin portāre, present active infinitive of portō (“bring, carry”).

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portei, past participle portado)

1. to carry, bear

• “portar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “portar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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portar (present tense portas, past tense portis, future tense portos, imperative portez, conditional portus)

1. to carry

• adportar

portar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of portare

portar m

1. indefinite plural of port

From Old Occitan portar, from Latin portāre, present active infinitive of portō (“bring, carry”).

• Audio

  (file)

portar

1. to carry
2. to bring
3. to wear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• emportar

From Old Galician-Portuguese portar, from Latin portāre (“to bring, to carry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• Hyphenation: por‧tar

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portei, past participle portado)

1. to bear; to carry
2. (reflexive) to behave

   Synonym: comportar

• portador
• portável

From poartă +‎ -ar, or possibly from Late Latin portārius, from Latin porta. Compare Aromanian purtar.

• Audio

  (file)

portar m (plural portari)

1. gatekeeper, doorkeeper, doorman, porter, door-guard
2. (sports) goalkeeper, goalie

• portăreasă

• poartă

• ușier

Inherited from Old Spanish portar, a foreign word borrowed in various times from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”) and from cognates in Romance languages such as Catalan portar, French porter, Italian portare;[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈtaɾ/ [poɾˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: por‧tar

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite porté, past participle portado)

1. to bear, to carry

   Synonyms: llevar, traer

   Portaba una maleta.

   He was carrying a suitcase.

   Portaba armas.

   She was bearing arms.

2. (reflexive) to behave, to be good

   Synonyms: actuar, comportar, obrar

   Pórtate bien en la escuela.

   Behave in school.

• (to bear; to carry): A somewhat more formal verb. Everyday usage would usually employ llevar or traer.

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

portar

1. indefinite plural of port

portar

1. present indicative of porta

From Latin portāre (compare Italian portare), present active infinitive of portō (“bring, carry”).

portar

1. (transitive) to carry; to bring

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.