portazgo

Inherited from Old Spanish portadgo, from Late Latin portāticum, from Latin porta. By surface analysis, puerta +‎ -azgo. Doublet of portaje, a borrowing from French. Cognate with Galician portádego.

• IPA^(key): /poɾˈtaθɡo/ [poɾˈt̪aθ̬.ɣ̞o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /poɾˈtasɡo/ [poɾˈt̪az.ɣ̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθɡo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -asɡo (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: por‧taz‧go

portazgo m (plural portazgos)

1. a toll paid historically in Spain by travelers for passage on roads

• peaje

• “portazgo”, 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