different between port vs porta

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 Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus distantly cognate with ford). The directional sense derived from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf.

Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

1. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
2. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
3. (nautical, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
4. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

Synonyms

• (place where ships dock): harbour, haven
• (town or city containing such a place): harbour city, harbour town, port city
• (left-hand side of a vessel): backboard, larboard, left

Antonyms

• (right-hand side of a vessel): starboard

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (por?)
• ? Russian: ???? (port)
• ? Thai: ????? (p???t)

Translations

Adjective

port (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.

Synonyms

• larboard, backboard, left

Antonyms

• starboard

Translations

Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from the Old English port, from the Latin porta (“passage, gate”), reinforced by the Old French porte. Doublet of porta.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
2. An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
3. (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
4. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
5. (computing) A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
6. (computing) A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• backport
• porthole
• (computing): port forwarding

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French porter, from Latin port?re (“carry”). Akin to transport, portable.

Verb

port (third-person singular simple present ports, present participle porting, simple past and past participle ported)

1. To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
2. (military) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
3. (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
4. (telephony) To carry or transfer an existing telephone number from one telephone service provider to another.
5. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
2. (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.
   • 1744 (first published), Robert South, Five additional volumes of sermons preached upon several occasions

     the necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world

3. (military) The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
4. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.

5. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.

Derived terms

• (military): at the high port

Translations

Etymology 4

Named from Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

1. A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.

Synonyms

• (fortified wine): porto, port wine

Translations

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of portmanteau.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (Australia) A suitcase or schoolbag.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 53:

     How do you think the cane toads got into this pristine environment? Joseph Midnight brought them in his port from Townsville, smuggled them in, not that anyone was there to stop him.

Anagrams

• -trop-, Prot., prot-, torp, trop, trop-, trop.

Albanian

Noun

port m (indefinite plural porte, definite singular porti, definite plural portet)

1. port, harbor

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?p??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour

Related terms

• portuari

Etymology 2

From portar.

Noun

port m (plural ports)

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Further reading

• “port” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English report.

Pronunciation

Verb

port

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, colloquial) to file a complaint against

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse portr m, port n, borrowed via Old English port m (“gate”) from Latin porta. Compare also German Pforte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?po??rt/, [?p?o???d?]

Noun

port c (singular definite porten, plural indefinite porte)

1. gate
2. gateway

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/
• Hyphenation: port
• Rhymes: -?rt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port.

Noun

port m or n (plural porten)

1. postage

Alternative forms

• porto

Derived terms

• briefport

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English port, from port wine. Named for Portuguese Porto, a city in Portugal where the wines were originally shipped from.

Noun

port m (uncountable, diminutive portje n)

1. (a glass of) port, port wine, Porto

Etymology 3

Verb

port

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of porren
2. (archaic) plural imperative of porren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??/

Etymology 1

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. port, harbour
2. port, harbour city
3. refuge
4. transport
5. postage
6. stature, way of carrying oneself

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Romanian: port

Etymology 2

Deverbal of porter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. wearing (act of wearing something)

Anagrams

• trop

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?port]
• Hyphenation: port
• Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Noun

port (plural portok)

1. (computing) port

Declension

Etymology 2

por +? -t

Noun

port

1. accusative singular of por

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??r?t/
• Rhymes: -?r?t

Noun

port n (genitive singular ports, nominative plural port)

1. gate, gateway, entryway

Declension

Synonyms

• (gate): hlið

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. (music) tune

   Proverb:

2. jig (dance)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. landing-place
2. harbor, port
3. bank (of river, etc.)
4. mound, embankment
5. refuge, haven, resort
6. stopping-place
7. place, locality
8. fortified place, stronghold
9. occupied place, seat, centre

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "port" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin portus.

Noun

port m (plural porc)

1. port, harbour

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian portu, from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Noun

port m (plural portijiet)

1. harbour, port

   Synonym: (archaic) marsa

Norman

Etymology

From Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”).

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. (Jersey) harbour, port

   Synonyms: caûchie, hâvre

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural porter, definite plural portene)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

• inngangsport

References

• “port” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian portr m, from late Old Norse port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

Noun

port m (definite singular porten, indefinite plural portar, definite plural portane)

1. a gate
2. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
3. (computing) port (female connector of an electronic device)

Derived terms

• inngangsport

References

• “port” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /port/, [por?t]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”).

Noun

port m

1. a port, a haven (a harbor or harbor-town)
2. a town, particularly one with special trading privileges

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

Etymology 2

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

Noun

port m

1. portal (a door or gate; an entrance)

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: port
  • English: port
  • Scots: port

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “port”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?rt/
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

port m (oblique plural porz or portz, nominative singular porz or portz, nominative plural port)

1. port (for watercraft)

Descendants

• French: port
  • ? Romanian: port
• Norman: port
• ? Middle High German: port
  • German: Port
    • ? Russian: ???? (port)

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

Noun

port m (genitive puirt, nominative plural puirt)

1. place
2. shore

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin portus. Compare French and English port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?rt/

Noun

port m inan

1. port, harbour (area for ships)
2. port, a town or city containing such a place

Declension

Derived terms

• portowy (adjective)

Further reading

• port in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port, Italian porto, Latin portus.

Noun

port n (plural porturi)

1. port (town with port)

Declension

Related terms

• portuar

See also

• iman

Etymology 2

Verb

port

1. first-person singular present indicative of purta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of purta

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. tune

Synonyms

• fonn
• mànran

Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore (of river or sea); landing-place, haven; bank, mound, entrenchment; place, spot, locality; stead, abode; stronghold, fortress”), ultimately from Latin portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge, asylum, retreat”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular puirt, plural puirt or portan)

1. port, harbour

Synonyms

• acarsaid
• cala

Derived terms

• longphort
• port-adhair

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 port”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

From late Old Norse port n, portr m, from Latin porta f. Computing sense a semantic loan from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

port c

1. an entrance (into a building), a gate, a portal, a door, a doorway
2. (computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• portvin

References

• port in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• torp

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English port.

Noun

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port

Declension

English

Etymology

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

Noun

porta (plural portae)

1. (anatomy) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
2. (anatomy) 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Prato, aport, atrop-, op art

Asturian

Verb

porta

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?p??.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?r.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?p??.ta/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

porta f (plural portes)

1. door

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

porta

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

Further reading

• “porta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

French

Pronunciation

Verb

porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

Anagrams

• Prato

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??ta?/

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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

   Synonym: portal

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

• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “porta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “porta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “porta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “porta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?port?]
• Hyphenation: por?ta
• Rhymes: -t?

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

Derived terms

• portás

References

Further reading

• porta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). 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): [?p?rt?a]
• Hyphenation: por?ta

Noun

porta (plural porta-porta, first-person possessive portaku, second-person possessive portamu, third-person possessive portanya)

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

Compounds

Further reading

• “porta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

porta (plural portas)

1. door

Italian

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.ta/
• Rhymes: -?rta

Noun

porta f (plural porte)

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

Related terms

Etymology 2

Inflected form of portare.

Verb

porta

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

Derived terms

• porta-

Anagrams

• parto, potrà, prato, 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

Etymology 1

From the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through/over”), probably as a feminine nominalization of *pr-tó- (“passed (through), crossed”). Confer with portus, Ancient Greek ????? (póros, “means of passage”).

Pronunciation

• porta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta/, [?p?rt?ä]
• porta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta/, [?p?rt??]
• port?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta?/, [?p?rt?ä?]
• port?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta/, [?p?rt??]

Noun

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

1. gate, especially of a city
2. entrance, passage, door
3. (figuratively) way, means

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• portus

Noun

port?

1. ablative singular of porta

References

Etymology 2

Inflected form of port? (“carry, bear”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta?/, [?p?rt?ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?por.ta/, [?p?rt??]

Verb

port?

1. singular present active imperative of port?

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, 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.
• porta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) 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 form of ports

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?p??.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p??.t?/, [?p??.t??]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /?p??.t?/
  • (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /?p?h.t?/, /?p?.??/
• Hyphenation: por?ta

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. door
2. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

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

   Synonym: solução

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

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

porta

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of portar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of portar

Further reading

• “porta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

p?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. entrance

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Noun

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole
2. Obsolete spelling of puerta

Derived terms

• vena porta

Verb

porta

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of portar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of portar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of portar.

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

Conjugation

See also

• portera

Anagrams

• ropat