porta

See also: Porta, portá, portà, pòrta, porta-, and pörta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“a gate”). See port.

Noun

porta (plural portae) (anatomy)

1. The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
2. The foramen of Monro.
   • 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:

     the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia

Related terms

• portal

 

References

• “porta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• atrop-, Prato, aport, op art, trapo

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/, [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾ.ta]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Noun

porta f (plural portes)

1. doorway, gateway
2. door

Derived terms

• a porta oberta
• a porta tancada
• picaporta
• porta caladissa
• porta corredissa
• porta d'entrada
• porta giratòria
• porta tallafoc
• portell
• portella
• porter

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “porta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

porta (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

Anagrams

• Prato

Galician

St. Jame's church, Ribadavia

Porta, Castro de Vigo, Vigo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾta/ [ˈpɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾta
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate

   Synonym: portal

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 886:

     quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entrada

     when they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through the gate, and they had to remove the doors and widen the entrance

4. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

Related terms

• Porta
• portal
• porteiro
• portelo

 

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈportɒ]
• Hyphenation: por‧ta
• Rhymes: -tɒ

Noun

porta (plural porták)

1. parcel of land (with a house on it)
2. hotel reception, reception desk, front desk
3. (figuratively, colloquial) household, house (one's own home)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	porta	porták
accusative	portát	portákat
dative	portának	portáknak
instrumental	portával	portákkal
causal-final	portáért	portákért
translative	portává	portákká
terminative	portáig	portákig
essive-formal	portaként	portákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	portában	portákban
superessive	portán	portákon
adessive	portánál	portáknál
illative	portába	portákba
sublative	portára	portákra
allative	portához	portákhoz
elative	portából	portákból
delative	portáról	portákról
ablative	portától	portáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	portáé	portáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	portáéi	portákéi

Possessive forms of porta
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	portám	portáim
2nd person sing.	portád	portáid
3rd person sing.	portája	portái
1st person plural	portánk	portáink
2nd person plural	portátok	portáitok
3rd person plural	portájuk	portáik

Derived terms

• portás

Further reading

• porta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

porta

1. indefinite genitive plural of port

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through/over”), probably as a feminine nominalization of *pr-tó- (“passed (through), crossed”). Doublet of portal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔrt̪a]
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Noun

porta (plural)

1. (anatomy) porta.
2. (computing) port.

Compounds

• porta inframerah
• porta panel datar digital
• porta permainan
• porta serial

 

Further reading

• “porta” 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.

Interlingua

Noun

porta (plural portas)

1. door

Italian

Porta (door)

Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Noun

porta f (plural porte)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing) port
4. (soccer) goal

Related terms

• alle porte
• porta a porta
• portale
• porta USB
• portello
• porticina
• portico
• portiera
• portiere
• portinaio
• portone

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/, /ˈpor.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta, -orta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta, pór‧ta

Participle

porta f sg

1. feminine singular of porto (“(having) given, (having) handed”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Prato, parto, potrà, prato, tarpo, tarpò

Italiot Greek

Etymology

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

Noun

porta f

1. door

Ladin

Verb

porta

1. inflection of porter:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Porta Borsārī, Vērōnae

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *portā, from Proto-Indo-European *porteh₂, from *per- (“to pass through/over”). Cognate with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]

Noun

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

1. gate, especially of a city
2. entrance, passage, door

   Synonyms: ingressus, līmen, initium, foris, iānua, ingressiō, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

3. (figuratively) way, means

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	porta	portae
genitive	portae	portārum
dative	portae	portīs
accusative	portam	portās
ablative	portā	portīs
vocative	porta	portae

Derived terms

• porta itinerī longissima
• portāle
  • → English: portal
  • → Italian: portale
  • → Spanish: portal
• portārius
• portella
• porticus
• portō
• portōrium
• portula

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: poartã
  • Istro-Romanian: poartĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: poartă
  • Romanian: poartă
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: puerta, porta
  • Leonese: puerta
  • Mirandese: puorta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: porta
    • Galician: porta
    • Portuguese: porta
  • Spanish: puerta (see there for further descendants)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: porta
  • Dalmatian: puarta
  • Istriot: puorta
  • Italian: porta
  • Neapolitan: porta, puorta
  • Sicilian: porta
  • Venetan: porta
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: porta
  • Occitan: pòrta
• Oïl:
  • Bourguignon: pote
  • French: porte
  • Walloon: poite
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: puarte
  • Romansch: porta
• Sardinian:
  • polta, porta, pota

Borrowings

• → Albanian: portë
• → Basque: borta
• → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)
• → English: porta (learned)
• → Esperanto: pordo
• → Proto-West Germanic: *portā (see there for further descendants)
• → Byzantine Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
  • Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
  • Pontic Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
    • → Laz: პოტრა (p̌oťra), ფოტრა (poťra) — Vizha
  • → Bulgarian: порта (porta)
  • → Old Church Slavonic: поръта (porŭta)
• → Ido: pordo

Etymology 2

Inflected form of portō (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.taː/, [ˈpɔrt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ta/, [ˈpɔrt̪ä]

Verb

portā

1. singular present active imperative of portō

References

• “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta 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)
• porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go outside the gate: extra portam egredi
    
  • to barricade a door (a city-gate): valvas (portam) obstruere
    
  • to be on duty before the gates: stationes agere pro portis
    
  • to break down the gates: claustra portarum revellere
    
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates: portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates: portas refringere
    
• “porta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “porta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

porta m

1. genitive singular of ports

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese porta.

Noun

porta

1. door

Derived terms

• porta-casa (“front door”)
• porta-trás (“back door”)

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tɑ/, [ˈporˠ.tɑ]

Noun

porta

1. genitive plural of port

Portuguese

Porta

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɻ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 180:

     Se você não abrir a porta, vamos arrombá-la!

     If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!

2. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

3. (by extension) gateway
4. (by extension) solution

   Synonym: solução

5. (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

nouns

• à porta fechada
• ao pé da porta
• burro como uma porta
• dar com a porta na cara
• falar com uma porta
• porta a porta
• porta aberta
• porta de água
• porta de correr
• porta do cavalo
• porta giratória
• portinha
• portona
• surdo como uma porta

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “porta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

1. entrance

Declension

    Declension of porta

	singular	plural
nominative	porta	porte
genitive	porte	porta
dative	porti	portama
accusative	portu	porte
vocative	porto	porte
locative	porti	portama
instrumental	portom	portama

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• purta (Gallo-italic of Sicily)
• potta (regressively assimilated, dialectal)
• puaitta, puajtta (iotacized, dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.ta/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾ.ta], [ˈpu-], [ˈpwe-], [ˈpwɔ-], [ˈpuɔ̯ɪ̯t.ta], [-t.ta], [puɔ̯ɪ̯-] (dialectal)
• Rhymes: -orta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Compare, for more, Galician, Portuguese, Italian, Corsican, and Neapolitan porta, Asturian and Spanish puerta.

Noun

porta f (plural porti)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing) port
4. (soccer) goal

Derived terms

• diportu
• dipurtari
• mpurtanti
• mpurtari
• purtari
• purtata
• purtatu
• purtazza
• purteri
• purticatu
• purticeḍḍa
• purtinaru
• purtinarìa
• purtuni
• pòrticu
• sport
• spurtari
• spurteḍḍu

 

Related terms

• catinazzu
• catinazzu di abbrazzu
• chiavi
• chiùdiri
• ncasari
• nchiavari
• ràpiri
• sirratura
• sporta
• vutari

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

porta

1. inflection of purtari:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Derived terms

• pigghia e porta

 

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾta/ [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: por‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin porta. Doublet of puerta.

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole

   Synonyms: tronera, ventanilla

2. Obsolete spelling of puerta.

Derived terms

• vena porta

 

Etymology 2

Verb

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Shortening of portförbjuda, from port (“entrance, gateway, door”) and förbjuda (“prohibit, forbid”).

Verb

porta (present portar, preterite portade, supine portat, imperative porta)

1. to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)

   Han är portad från puben

   He's banned from the pub

Conjugation

Conjugation of porta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	porta		portas
Supine	portat		portats
Imperative	porta		—
Imper. plural1	porten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	portar	portade	portas	portades
Ind. plural1	porta	portade	portas	portades
Subjunctive2	porte	portade	portes	portades
	Participles
Present participle	portande
Past participle	portad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

• portera

References

• porta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• porta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• ropat