porus

porus (plural pori)

1. (botany, dated) A pore.
   • 1923, J. W. Moll, ‎Hindrik Haijo Janssonius, Botanical Pen-Portraits

     […] sometimes both guard-cells flattened, only the porus being distinct.

• por

Learned borrowing from Latin porus. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔ.ɾus]

porus m (invariable)

1. pore (a tiny opening in the skin)

• porós

• “porus”, 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
• “porus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Dutch poreus (“porous”), from French poreux (“porous”), from Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”), from Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo.rʊs/
• Rhymes: -rʊs
• Hyphenation: po‧rus

porus (comparative lebih porus, superlative paling porus)

1. porous, permeate

• poros (Standard Malay)

• “porus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Ancient Greek πόρος (póros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔ.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.rus]

porus m (genitive porī); second declension

1. pore, passage in the body.

Second-declension noun.

• Catalan: porus, por
• French: pore
• Galician: poro
• Italian: poro
• Portuguese: poro
• Spanish: poro

From Ancient Greek πῶρος (pôros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpoː.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.rus]

pōrus m (genitive pōrī); second declension

1. tufa

Second-declension noun.

• “porus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "porus", 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)
• porus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “porus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “porus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “porus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

porus m

1. (dialectal) accusative plural of pors