Port

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Port

1. Archaic form of Porto: a city in Portugal.
2. A surname.

Shortened form of Portsmouth.^[1]

Port

1. (after a qualification) University of Portsmouth, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.^[2]

Clipping of Port Adelaide.

Port

1. (Australian rules football, informal) Ellipsis of Port Adelaide Football Club.

Clipping of Port Macquarie.

Port

1. (New South Wales, informal) Ellipsis of Port Macquarie.

• -trop-, Prot., prot-, torp, trop, trop-, trop.

• IPA^(key): [ˈport]

Port m anim (female equivalent Portová)

1. a male surname

• “Port”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/, [pɔʁt], [pɔɐ̯t], [pɔːt]

From Middle High German port, borrowed from Old French port, itself borrowed from Latin portus (“harbor”).

Port m (strong, genitive Portes or Ports, plural Porte)

1. (poetic, highly archaic) haven (place of safety)
2. (obsolete) harbor, port

• →? Belarusian: порт (port)
• →? Bulgarian: по́рт (pórt)
• →? Russian: порт (port) (see there for further descendants)
• →? Ukrainian: порт (port)

Port m (strong, genitive Ports, no plural)

1. short for Portwein

Borrowed from English port, ultimately from Latin porta (“gate”).

Port m (strong, genitive Ports, plural Ports)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port

   Synonyms: Anschluss, Anschlussbuchse, Schnittstelle

Back-formation from Portesmūþa.

• IPA^(key): /port/, [porˠt]

Port m

1. a male given name attributed to one of the Saxon invaders of Britain, apparently in an inference from Portesmūþa.

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Port”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.