portorium

Latin

Etymology

From porta (“gate”), or, as it appears in Plautus, possibly from an earlier stage of the language having an equivalent etymology. Compare portitōrium.

Noun

portōrium n (genitive portōriī or portōrī); second declension

1. (in Roman Republic) port duty, levie paid by ships to finance upkeep of public harbours
2. (in Roman Empire) 1/40 (2.5%) custom-tax on trade between Roman provinces

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	portōrium	portōria
genitive	portōriī portōrī1	portōriōrum
dative	portōriō	portōriīs
accusative	portōrium	portōria
ablative	portōriō	portōriīs
vocative	portōrium	portōria

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

References

• “portorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “portorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• portorium 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)
• portorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “portorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “portorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin