porto

porto (plural portos)

1. An apéritif made from port.
2. Synonym of port.

• porto français

• Proto, Topor, Troop, proot, proto, proto-, troop, tropo, tropo-

porto m (plural portos)

1. (Eonavian) Alternative form of puertu

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɔr.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpɔr.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpɔɾ.to]

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

porto

1. postage; payment for sending a letter or package

Loanword from Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.toː/

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• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural porti or porto's)

1. the postage due for having a letter or package transported and delivered by a postal service

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.to/

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porto m (plural portos)

1. port wine

• verre à porto

• porto flip

• “porto” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “porto” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “porto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpoɾt̪ʊ]

porto m (plural portos)

1. port, harbour
2. ford
   • 1264, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 364:

     pelo camino que vay peraa devesa de valadares asy como vay o porto do rrio u pasan os carros

     by the road that goes to the wood of Valadares as it goes by the ford of the river where the carts cross

3. pass, defile
4. port wine

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

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

From Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from the root *per- (“to go forth”, “to cross”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. port, harbour/harbor

• → Romanian: port
• →⇒ Slavomolisano: lupuort

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto, name of the city where the wines were originally shipped from.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. port (type of wine)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/, /ˈpor.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto, -orto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to, pór‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. (archaic) ferry

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/, /ˈpor.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto, -orto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to, pór‧to

porto (feminine porta, masculine plural porti, feminine plural porte)

1. past participle of porgere

• porto di mare
• porto d'armi

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portare

• -tropo, potrò, proto, proto-, tropo

• Perhaps from Proto-Italic *portāō, from Proto-Indo-European *p(o)rteh₂yeti, from *per- (“to go through”);
• or for *poritō, frequentative of Proto-Indo-European *poréyeti (“to make go through”), from *per- (“to go through”).

Cognate with porta, portus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.toː/, [ˈpɔrt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.to/, [ˈpɔrt̪o]

portō (present infinitive portāre, perfect active portāvī, supine portātum); first conjugation

1. to carry, bear

   Synonyms: ferō, gerō, vehō, traho, effero

2. to convey, bring

   Synonym: vehō

3. to wear

   Synonyms: gerō, vestiō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “porto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
    
• porto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Italian porto; compare with German Porto.

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoer, definite plural portoene)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian porto.

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoar, definite plural portoane)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrtɔ
• Syllabification: por‧to

Borrowed from Italian porto, from Latin portus.

porto n (indeclinable)

1. postage (charge)

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

porto n (indeclinable)

1. port wine

   Synonym: portwajn

• porto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• porto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

• pôrto (superseded)

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [ˈpwɐɾ.tu]
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoh.tu/
• Homophone: Porto
• Hyphenation: por‧to

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porto m (plural portos, metaphonic)

1. port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
2. port (city containing such a place)
3. (figurative) haven (place of safety)

• chegar a bom porto, levar a bom porto

From Porto.

• pôrto (superseded)

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoh.tu/
• Homophone: Porto
• Hyphenation: por‧to

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porto m (plural portos)

1. Clipping of vinho do Porto.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔh.tu/
• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

Borrowed from French porto.

porto n (uncountable)

1. port wine

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

Borrowed from Italian porto. Attested since 1645.

porto n

1. postage

• frimärke (“stamp”)
• portokod (“postage code”)

Borrowed from Portuguese oporto.

porto n

1. Dated spelling of port (“port (wine)”).
   • 1900, Oscar Levertin, chapter V, in Magistrarne i Österås‎, pages 91–92:

     Där låg Blockhusudden med sitt hvita hus, sina tullsnokar och den första hälsningsbägaren för hufvudstaden i skepparnas starka porto.

     There lay Blockhusudden with its white house, its customs snoops and the first cup in greetings for the capital with the skippers' strong port.