different between maintenance vs porter

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayntenaunce, from Old French maintenance, from maintenir, from Latin manus ten?re (“to hold in the hand”). Surface analysis is maintain +? -ance.

Note that maintain has undergone a sound and spelling change, hence is spelt with -tain-, rather than the -ten- still found in maintenance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?me?nt(?)n?ns/, /?me?nt?n?ns/

Noun

maintenance (usually uncountable, plural maintenances)

1. Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
2. (law) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
3. (law, Britain) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
4. (law) Child support.
5. Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
6. (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• maintenance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• maintenance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• maintenance at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

maintenir (“to maintain”) +? -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t.n??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

maintenance f (plural maintenances)

1. maintenance

Further reading

• “maintenance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t?/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po(?)?t?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin port?tor, from past participle of Latin port?re (“to carry”).

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. A person who carries luggage and related objects.

   By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.

2. (entomology) An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
3. (computing) One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. A person in control of the entrance to a building.
2. (bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
3. A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
4. (Ireland) Stout (malt brew).

Coordinate terms

• (strong, dark ale): beer, stout

Derived terms

• portership

Translations

Verb

porter (third-person singular simple present porters, present participle portering, simple past and past participle portered)

1. To serve as a porter; to carry.

Anagrams

• Perrot, perrot, porret, pretor, proter, report, troper

Catalan

Etymology

From porta or from Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin port?rius, from Latin porta. Compare French portier.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /po??te/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pur?te/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /po??te?/

Noun

porter m (plural porters)

1. doorman, doorkeeper, gatekeeper
2. goalkeeper

Related terms

• porta

French

Etymology 1

From Old French porter, from Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.te/

Verb

porter

1. to carry
2. to support, to bear
3. to wear
4. (transitive with sur) to be about, to concern

5. (reflexive, se porter) to feel, to carry one's self

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

From English porter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/
• Homophone: portèrent

Noun

porter m (plural porters)

1. porter (beer)
   • 1884, Joris-Karl Huysmans, À rebours, XI:

     il […] étancha sa soif avec le porter, cette bière noire qui sent le jus de réglisse dépouillé de sucre.

     He quenched his thirst with some porter, that dark beer which smells of unsweetened liquorice.

Anagrams

• Perrot

Further reading

• “porter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port? (“bring, carry”).

Verb

porter

1. to carry

Conjugation

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Latin

Verb

porter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of port?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French porter, from Latin port?, port?re.

Verb

porter

1. to carry

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: porter

Middle English

Alternative forms

• portere, portare, portir, portor, portour, porteour

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman porter, portour, equivalent to port +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?rt?r/, /p?r?t??r/

Noun

porter (plural porters)

1. gatekeeper, doorkeeper

Descendants

• English: porter
• Yola: porther

References

• “port??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Alternative forms

• portaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French porter, from Latin port?, port?re.

Pronunciation

Verb

porter

1. (Jersey) to carry
2. (Jersey) to wear

Derived terms

• porter un coup (“to strike”)
• portchi (“porter”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

porter m

1. indefinite plural of port

Old French

Etymology

From Latin port?re, present active infinitive of port?.

Verb

porter

1. to carry

2. to carry a child (to be pregnant)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Related terms

• portour

Descendants

• Middle French: porter
  • French: porter