portus

portus

1. conditional of porti

From Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Cognates include Northern Kurdish pir (“bridge”), Russian пере́ть (perétʹ, “push forward”), Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”) and Old English ford (English ford). See also porta.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪us]
• Homophone: Portus

portus m (genitive portūs); fourth declension

1. harbor, port
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.863:

     venīmus in portum

     We are approaching the port

2. haven, refuge, asylum, retreat
3. warehouse

Fourth-declension noun.

• “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• portus 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)
• portus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
    
  • the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
    
  • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • to be unable to land: portu, terra prohiberi (B. C. 3. 15)
    
  • to keep the coast and harbours in a state of blockade: litora ac portus custodia clausos tenere
    
• “portus”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN