port

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poət/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

The old port of Dubrovnik

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus distantly cognate with ford).

port (plural ports)

1. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     peering in maps for ports and piers and roads

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

2. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
3. (nautical, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Port does not change based on the orientation of the person aboard the craft.
4. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

   Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

• (place where ships dock): harbour, haven
• (town or city containing such a place): harbour city, harbour town, port city
• (left-hand side of a vessel): backboard, larboard, left

• (right-hand side of a vessel): starboard

• → Hindi: पोर्ट (porṭ)
• → Russian: порт (port)
• → Thai: พอร์ต (pɔ̂ɔt)

port (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel.

   on the port side

• larboard, left

• starboard

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.

   Port your helm!

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte.

port (plural ports)

1. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous […] .

   • 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V.vi:

     Him I accuse / The city ports by this hath enter'd

   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:

     And from their ivory port the Cherubim, / Forth issuing at the accustomed hour

2. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Sir W. Raleigh, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     […] her ports being within sixteen inches of the water […]

3. (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
4. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
5. (computing) A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
6. (computing) A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

• backport
• porthole
• (computing): port forwarding

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:

     They are easily ported by boat into other shires.

2. (military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.

   Port arms!

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:

     […] the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears.

3. (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
4. (telephony) To carry or transfer an existing telephone number from one telephone service provider to another.
5. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

• port arms
• portage
• porter
• port-o-john, port-o-potty
• portly

port (plural ports)

1. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
2. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
   • late 14th c., Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in Canterbury Tales, line 69:

     And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace […]

   • (Can we date this quote?), South, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world

3. (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
4. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.

   Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.

   The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.

5. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.

• (military): at the high port

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in where Portugal the wines were originally shipped from.

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

1. A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.

• (fortified wine): porto, port wine

Abbreviation of portmanteau.

port (plural ports)

1. (Australia) A suitcase.
   • 1964, George Johnston, My Brother Jack:

     No, she just paid up proper-like t' the end of the week, an' orf she went with 'er port, down t' the station, I suppose.

   • 2001, Sally de Dear, The House on Pig Island‎, page 8:

     As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put your port in there.”
     “What?” asked Penny.
     “Your port - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 53:

     How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.

• Prot., prot-, torp, trop, trop.

port m (indefinite plural porte, definite singular porti, definite plural portet)

1. port, harbor

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrt/

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

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour

• portuari

From portar.

port m (plural ports)

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• “port” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From late Old Norse port, portr, from Latin porta.

• IPA^(key): /port/, [pʰoɐ̯ˀd̥]

port c (singular definite porten, plural indefinite porte)

1. gate
2. gateway

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Borrowed from French port.

port m or n (plural porten)

1. postage

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

port m (uncountable, diminutive portje n)

1. (a glass of) port, port wine, Porto

port

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of porren
2. (archaic) plural imperative of porren

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ/

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From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour
2. port, harbour city
3. refuge
4. transport
5. postage
6. stature, way of carrying oneself

• → Romanian: port

Deverbal of porter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.

port m (plural ports)

1. wearing (act of wearing something)

• trop

• “port” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• IPA^(key): [ˈport]
• Hyphenation: port

port (plural portok)

1. (computing) port

por +‎ -t

port

1. accusative singular of por

Ultimately from Latin porta.

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔr̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

port n (genitive singular ports, nominative plural port)

1. gate, gateway, entryway

• (gate): hlið

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. (music) tune
   • Is buaine port ná glór na n-éan; is buaine focal ná toice an tsaoil.

     A tune is more lasting than the song of birds; a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.

2. jig (dance)

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. landing-place
2. harbor, port
3. bank (of river, etc.)
4. mound, embankment
5. refuge, haven, resort
6. stopping-place
7. place, locality
8. fortified place, stronghold
9. occupied place, seat, center

• taobhfort m (“traverse”)

• "port" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 port” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 port” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Latin portus.

port m (plural porc)

1. port, harbour

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”).

port m (plural ports)

1. (Jersey) harbour, port

• caûchie
• hâvre

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

• IPA^(key): /puʈ/
• Rhymes: -uʈ

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural porter, definite plural portene)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (ogical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

• inngangsport

• “port” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural portar, definite plural portane)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

• inngangsport

• “port” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /port/

Borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”).

port m

1. a port, a haven (a harbor or harbor-town)
2. a town, particularly one with special trading privileges

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• portcwēn f
• Portesmūþa m
• portgeat n
• portġerēfa m
• portgeriht n
• portherepaþ m
• portmann m
• portstrǣt f
• portwara m
• portweall m
• portweg m
• portwer m

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

• “port” on pages 776–777 of the Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)

Borrowed from Latin porta (“gate, entrance, passage, door”).

port m

1. portal (a door or gate; an entrance)

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

• “port” on page 777/1 of the Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898)

Borrowed from Latin portus.

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

port m (oblique plural porz or portz, nominative singular porz or portz, nominative plural port)

1. port (for watercraft)
   • circa 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     As porz d'Espaigne en est passet Rollant

     Roland went to the ports of Spain

• French: port
  • → Romanian: port
• Norman: port
• → Middle High German: port
  • German: Port
    • → Russian: порт (port)

Ultimately borrowed from Latin portus. Compare French and English port.

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/

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port m inan

1. port, harbour (area for ships)
2. port, a town or city containing such a place

• portowy

Borrowed from French port, Italian porto, Latin portus.

port n (plural porturi)

1. port (town with port)

• portuar

• iman

port

1. first-person singular present indicative of purta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of purta

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. tune

• fonn
• mànran

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), ultimately from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. port, harbour

• acarsaid
• cala

• longphort
• port-adhair

• “1 port” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 port” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From late Old Norse port n, portr m, from Latin porta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

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port c

1. an entrance (into a building), a gate, a portal, a door, a doorway
2. (computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

• portvin

• port in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Borrowed from English port.

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port