portar

From Latin portāre (“bring, carry”).

portar (first-person singular indicative present porto, past participle portáu)

1. to act (to behave in a certain way)

Inherited from Old Catalan portar, from Latin portāre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [purˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [porˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poɾˈtaɾ]

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portí, past participle portat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to carry

   Porta les maletes.

   He carries the suitcase.

2. to bring

   Porta un entrepà per a tu!

   Bring a sandwich with you!

3. to wear

   Porto una samarreta blava.

   I wear a blue T-shirt.

4. (reflexive) to behave, to act

   Synonyms: comportar-se, captenir-se

• emportar-se
• portejador

• “portar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “portar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “portar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “portar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin portare

portar (ORB, broad)

1. to carry

• porter in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• portar in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Old Galician-Portuguese portar, from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”).

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portei, past participle portado)

1. to carry, bear

• “portar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “portar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

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portar (present tense portas, past tense portis, future tense portos, imperative portez, conditional portus)

1. to carry

• adportar

portar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of portare

portar m

1. indefinite plural of port

From Old Occitan portar, from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”).

• Audio:

  (file)

portar

1. to carry
2. to bring
3. to wear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• emportar

From Old Galician-Portuguese portar, from Latin portāre (“to bring, to carry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• Hyphenation: por‧tar

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite portei, past participle portado)

1. to bear; to carry
2. (reflexive) to behave

   Synonym: comportar

• portador
• portável

From poartă +‎ -ar, or possibly from Late Latin portārius, from Latin porta. Compare Aromanian purtar.

• Audio:

  (file)

portar m (plural portari)

1. gatekeeper, doorkeeper, doorman, porter, door-guard
2. (sports) goalkeeper, goalie

• portăreasă

• poartă

• ușier

Inherited from Old Spanish portar, a foreign word borrowed in various times from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”) and from cognates in Romance languages such as Catalan portar, French porter, Italian portare;^[1] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈtaɾ/ [poɾˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: por‧tar

portar (first-person singular present porto, first-person singular preterite porté, past participle portado)

1. to bear, to carry

   Synonyms: llevar, traer

   Portaba una maleta.

   He was carrying a suitcase.

   Portaba armas.

   She was bearing arms.

2. (reflexive) to behave, to be good

   Synonyms: actuar, comportar, obrar

   Pórtate bien en la escuela.

   Behave in school.

• (to bear; to carry): A somewhat more formal verb. Everyday usage would usually employ llevar or traer.

• “portar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

portar

1. indefinite plural of port

portar

1. present indicative of porta

From Latin portāre. Compare Italian portare.

portar

1. (transitive) to carry; to bring

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.