porta
English
Noun
porta (plural portae)
- (anatomy) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
- (anatomy) The foramen of Monro.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of B. G. Wilder to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for porta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Asturian
Verb
porta
- inflection of portar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Occitan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
porta
Further reading
- “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾta̝/
Antonyms
- (entrance): saída
Verb
porta
- inflection of portar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “porta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “porta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “porta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈportɒ]
- Hyphenation: por‧ta
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
---|---|---|
singular | plural | |
nominative | porta | porták |
accusative | portát | portákat |
dative | portának | portáknak |
instrumental | portával | portákkal |
causal-final | portáért | portákért |
translative | portává | portákká |
terminative | portáig | portákig |
essive-formal | portaként | portákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | portában | portákban |
superessive | portán | portákon |
adessive | portánál | portáknál |
illative | portába | portákba |
sublative | portára | portákra |
allative | portához | portákhoz |
elative | portából | portákból |
delative | portáról | portákról |
ablative | portától | portáktól |
Possessive forms of porta | ||
---|---|---|
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | portám | portáim |
2nd person sing. | portád | portáid |
3rd person sing. | portája | portái |
1st person plural | portánk | portáink |
2nd person plural | portátok | portáitok |
3rd person plural | portájuk | portáik |
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”)
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔrta
Related terms
Etymology 2
Inflected form of portare.
Verb
porta
- inflection of portare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Derived terms
Italiot Greek
Ladin
Verb
porta
- inflection of porter:
- third-person singular/plural present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Etymology 1
From the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Confer with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).
Pronunciation
- porta: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔr.ta]
- porta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/
porta (Classical) (file) - portā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔr.taː]
- portā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ta/
portā (Classical) (file)
Noun
porta f (genitive portae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | porta | portae |
Genitive | portae | portārum |
Dative | portae | portīs |
Accusative | portam | portās |
Ablative | portā | portīs |
Vocative | porta | portae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Albanian: portë
- Aromanian: poartã
- Asturian: puerta
- Bourguignon: pote
- Bulgarian: порта (porta)
- Catalan: porta
- Corsican: porta
- Dalmatian: puarta
- Danish: port
- Dutch: poort, portaal
- English: portal
- Esperanto: pordo
- French: porte
- Friulian: puarte
- Galician: porta
- German: Pforte
- Byzantine Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
- Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
- Ido: pordo
- Istriot: puorta
- Italian: porta
- Leonese: puerta
- Mirandese: puorta
- Neapolitan: porta, puorta
- Occitan: pòrta
- Old Church Slavonic: поръта (porŭta)
- Old English: port
- Portuguese: porta, portão
- Romanian: poartă
- Romansch: porta
- Sardinian: polta, porta, pota
- Sicilian: porta
- Spanish: portada, puerta, portal
- Swedish: port
- Tourangeau: pourte
- Venetian: porta
- Walloon: poite
- Welsh: porth
See also
Noun
portā
- ablative singular of porta
References
- porta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- porta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
- to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
- to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis
- to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere
- (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
- (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
- to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
- porta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- porta in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Etymology 2
Inflected form of portō (“carry, bear”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔr.taː]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Latvian
Novial
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”)
Pronunciation
Noun
porta f (plural portas)
- door
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 180:
- Se você não abrir a porta, vamos arrombá-la!
- If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!
-
- entrance
- (by extension) gateway
- (by extension) solution
- (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)
Derived terms
- ao pé da porta
- à porta fechada
- porta do cavalo
- porta giratória
- portinha
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
porta
Serbo-Croatian
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Spanish
Swedish
Etymology
Shortening of portförbjuda from port (entrance, gateway, door) and förbjuda (prohibit, forbid).