portarius

Latin

Etymology

Late and Medieval Latin. From porta +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔrˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [porˈt̪aː.ri.us]

Noun

portārius m (genitive portāriī or portārī); second declension

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	portārius	portāriī
genitive	portāriī portārī¹	portāriōrum
dative	portāriō	portāriīs
accusative	portārium	portāriōs
ablative	portāriō	portāriīs
vocative	portārie	portāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Aromanian: purtar
Asturian: porteru
Catalan: porter
Occitan: portièr
Old French: portier
- Anglo-Norman: portour
  - → Middle English: porter
    - English: porter
      - → French: porter
- → Middle Dutch: portier
  - Dutch: portier
    - → Indonesian: portir
    - → Papiamentu: pòrtir
- Middle French: portier
  - French: portier
    - → German: Portier
    - → Italian: portiere
    - → Luxembourgish: Portier
    - → Polish: portier
    - → Russian: портье (portʹje)
    - → Venetan: portier
Old Galician-Portuguese: porteyro
- Galician: porteiro
- Portuguese: porteiro
Romanian: portar
Spanish: portero

References

“portarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"portarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
portarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.