different between porter vs auditor

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

English

Alternative forms

• auditour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman auditour, from Latin aud?tor (“hearer, auditor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d?t?(?)/

Noun

auditor (plural auditors, feminine auditress)

1. One who audits bookkeeping accounts.
2. In many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller.
3. One who audits an academic course; who attends the lectures but does not earn academic credit.
4. (rare) One who listens, typically as a member of an audience.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Sampson's tongue was still flying with rapidity, as if his auditors had not been void of a number, while Mr. Alboni and Natalie were holding a consultation aside.
5. (Scientology) One trained to perform spiritual guidance procedures.

Translations

Czech

Noun

auditor m

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Related terms

• audit

Further reading

• auditor in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• auditor in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• auditor in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Etymology

Doublet of auditør

Noun

auditor c (singular definite auditoren, plural indefinite auditorer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “auditor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch auditor, from Latin aud?tor (“hearer, auditor”). Doublet of oditur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [au??d?it?r]
• Hyphenation: au?di?tor

Noun

auditor (first-person possessive auditorku, second-person possessive auditormu, third-person possessive auditornya)

1. auditor:
   1. one who audits bookkeeping accounts
   2. in many jurisdictions, an elected or appointed public official in charge of the public accounts; a comptroller

Synonyms

• pengaudit

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From audi? (“hear, listen”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au??di?.tor/, [äu??d?i?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au??di.tor/, [?u??d?i?t??r]

Noun

aud?tor m (genitive aud?t?ris); third declension

1. a hearer
2. an auditor
3. a pupil, disciple; a person who listens to teachings

   Synonym: discipulus

4. (by metonymy) a reader of a book (books were read aloud)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

Verb

aud?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of audi?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of audi?

References

• auditor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• auditor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auditor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• auditor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• auditor in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?tor, aud?t?rem. Doublet of ouvidor.

Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Related terms

• auditório

Romanian

Etymology

From French auditeur, from Latin auditor.

Adjective

auditor m or n (feminine singular auditoare, masculine plural auditori, feminine and neuter plural auditoare)

1. auditorial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?tor, aud?t?rem. Doublet of oidor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /audi?to?/, [au?.ð?i?t?o?]

Noun

auditor m (plural auditores, feminine auditora, feminine plural auditoras)

1. auditor (one who audits bookkeeping accounts)

Derived terms

• auditoría

Further reading

• “auditor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.