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/, [ˈpɔr.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tus/
• Homophone: Portus

portus m (genitive portūs); fourth declension

1. harbour, port
2. haven, refuge, asylum, retreat
3. warehouse

Fourth declension.

• angiportus
• Argōus Portus
• Portus
• Portūnus

• Corsican: portu

  Gallurese: poltu

• Italian: porto
  • → Romanian: port
• Neapolitan: puorto
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: puertu, puerto, puirtu, puorto, puörtu, porto
• Old Occitan: port
  • Catalan: port
  • Occitan: pòrt
• Old Portuguese: porto
  • Galician: porto
  • Portuguese: porto
• Old Spanish: puerto
  • Spanish: puerto
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: puart
  • Ladin: port
  • Romansch: port
• Sardinian: poltu, portu
• Sicilian: portu
• Venetian: porto
• → Brythonic: *porθ
  • Cornish: porth
  • Old Breton: porth
    • Middle Breton: porz
      • Breton: porzh
  • Welsh: porth
• → Old French: port
  • French: port
    • → Romanian: port
  • Norman: port
  • → Middle High German: port
    • German: Port
      • → Russian: порт (port)
• → Faroese: portur
• → Old English: port
  • Middle English: port
    • English: port
    • Scots: port
• → Old Irish: port
  • Irish: port
  • Manx: purt
  • Scottish Gaelic: port
• → Polish: port

• 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, 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