Porto

See also: porto, portó, portò, pôrto, and Pôrto

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.

  • (wine): the name of the city whence it was exported.

Proper noun

Porto

  1. A city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal.
  2. A district in northern Portugal.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Porto (plural Portos)

  1. port wine
  2. by extension, generic port wine, wine of the style of Porto
  3. by extension, fortified wine

Hypernyms

Anagrams

Catalan

Proper noun

Porto ?

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ.to/

Proper noun

Porto f

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

Galician

Etymology

From porto (pass; ford; harbour).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔɾtʊ]

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. a large number of villages and parishes throughout Galicia, Spain
  2. a toponymical surname
  3. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  4. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

References

  • Porto” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
  • Porto” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔʁto/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Porto n

  1. postage (charge)

Derived terms

  • Nachporto
  • Strafporto

Further reading

  • Porto” in Duden online
  • Porto” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Old Galician-Portuguese

Proper noun

Porto

  1. a city in northern Portugal

Descendants

  • Portuguese: Porto

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrtɔ
  • Syllabification: Por‧to
  • Homophone: porto

Proper noun

Porto n (indeclinable)

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)
nouns

Further reading

  • Porto in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Porto in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Porto, from Latin Portus (Cale) (modern city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus (port).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoh.tu]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpoɾ.tu/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoχ.tu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpoɻ.to/

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. Porto (a city and municipality, the former district capital of the district of Porto, Portugal)
    Synonym: (nickname) Invicta / Cidade Invicta
    Cidade do PortoCity of Porto
  2. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Porto”, in Dicionário infopédia de Toponímia (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032025