porto

porto (plural portos)

1. An apéritif made from port.
2. Synonym of port.

• porto français

• Troop, poort, proto-, Topor, tropo, Proto, tropo-, troop, proot, proto

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɔr.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpɔr.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾ.to]

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

porto

1. postage; payment for sending a letter or package

Loanword from Italian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.toː/

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• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural porti or porto's)

1. the postage due for having a letter or package transported and delivered by a postal service

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.to/

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porto m (plural portos)

1. port wine

• verre à porto

• porto flip

• “porto” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “porto” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “porto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾto/ [ˈpoɾ.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -oɾto
• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural portos)

1. port, harbour
2. ford
   • 1264, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 364:

     pelo camino que vay peraa devesa de valadares asy como vay o porto do rrio u pasan os carros

     by the road that goes to the wood of Valadares as it goes by the ford of the river where the carts cross

3. pass, defile
4. port wine

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from the root *per- (“to go forth”, “to cross”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. port, harbour/harbor

• ⇒ Slavomolisano: lupuort

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto, name of the city where the wines were originally shipped from.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. port (type of wine)

From a merger of the first and fourth etymologies.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/, /ˈpor.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto, -orto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to, pór‧to

porto m (plural porti)

1. (archaic) ferry

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/, /ˈpor.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto, -orto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to, pór‧to

porto (feminine porta, masculine plural porti, feminine plural porte)

1. past participle of porgere

• porto di mare
• porto d'armi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: pòr‧to

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portare

• → Danish: porto
• → Dutch: porto
• → German: Porto
• → Norwegian Bokmål: porto
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: porto
• → Polish: porto
• → Swedish: porto

• -tropo, potrò, proto, proto-, tropo

porto m (Hebrew spelling פורטו)^[1]

1. alternative form of puerto
   • 19th century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 276:

     I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.

     And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great escort of Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk; companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porto (Hebrew spelling פורטו)

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

• Perhaps from Proto-Italic *portāō, from Proto-Indo-European *p(o)rteh₂yeti;^[1]
• or for *poritō, frequentative of Proto-Indo-European *poréyeti (“to make go through”).

Either way, ultimately from *per- (“to go through”). Cognate with porta, portus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.t̪o]

portō (present infinitive portāre, perfect active portāvī, supine portātum); first conjugation

1. to carry, bear

   Synonyms: ferō, gerō, vehō, traho, effero

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.239–241:

     [...] et prīmum pedibus tālāria nectit
     aurea, quae sublīmem ālīs sīve aequora suprā
     seu terram rapidō pariter cum flāmine portant.

     [...] and first [Mercury] laced to his feet the golden sandals, with wings by which he can soar over either seas or land, [and] they carry him along with the swift breeze.

2. to convey, bring

   Synonym: vehō

3. to wear

   Synonyms: gerō, vestiō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• “porto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
    
• porto in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Italian porto; compare with German Porto.

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoer, definite plural portoene)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Italian porto.

porto m (definite singular portoen, indefinite plural portoar, definite plural portoane)

1. postage

• “porto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrtɔ
• Syllabification: por‧to
• Homophone: Porto

Borrowed from Italian porto.

porto n (indeclinable)

1. postage (charge)

From Porto.

porto n (indeclinable)

1. port wine

   Synonym: portwajn

• porto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• porto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese porto, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”).

• pôrto (pre-reform spelling)

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [ˈpwɐɾ.tu]

• Audio (Portugal):

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• Rhymes: -oɾtu, -oʁtu
• Homophone: Porto
• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto m (plural portos, metaphonic)

1. port; harbour (place on the coast at which ships can shelter or dock)
2. port (city containing such a place)
3. (figurative) haven (place of safety)
4. ellipsis of vinho do Porto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔh.tu/
• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾtu, (Brazil) -ɔʁtu
• Hyphenation: por‧to

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

Borrowed from French porto.

porto n (uncountable)

1. port wine

porto

1. first-person singular present indicative of portar

Borrowed from Italian porto. Attested since 1645.

porto n

1. postage

• frimärke (“stamp”)
• portokod (“postage code”)

Borrowed from Portuguese oporto.

porto n

1. dated spelling of port (“port (wine)”)
   • 1900, Oscar Levertin, chapter V, in Magistrarne i Österås‎^[4], pages 91–92:

     Där låg Blockhusudden med sitt hvita hus, sina tullsnokar och den första hälsningsbägaren för hufvudstaden i skepparnas starka porto.

     There lay Blockhusudden with its white house, its customs snoops and the first cup in greetings for the capital with the skippers' strong port.