port

See also: Appendix:Variations of "port"

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɔːt/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation); “a port”:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɔɹt/

• Audio (General American):

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• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /poət/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

The old port of Dubrovnik

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives 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. doublet of fjord, ford, fjard, and firth

Noun

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

2. A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

   Synonyms: harbour, haven

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     peering in maps for ports and piers and roads

   • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:

     From the ground, Colombo's port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

4. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.

   Synonyms: harbour city, harbour town, port city

   • 2023 July 1, Mark Townsend, “‘We are seen as less human’: inside Marseille’s districts abandoned by the police”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     More broadly, the port is seen as a litmus test for France; if its most multicultural city can foster vast Muslim enclaves viewed with broad suspicion or hostility by the police, then what hope is there elsewhere?

5. (nautical, aviation, 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.

   Synonyms: backboard, larboard, leeboard, left

   Antonym: starboard

6. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

   Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

Hyponyms

• cold-water port
• warm-water port

Derived terms

Nouns

• airport
• any port in a storm
• carport
• container port
• dry port
• establishment of the port
• first port of call
• free port
• girl in every port
• half-port
• heliport
• helm-port
• helm port
• home port
• megaport
• outport
• port authority
• port knocking
• portlet
• port of call
• port of entry
• port of registry
• raft port
• river port
• seaport
• secondary port
• spaceport
• standard port
• static port
• treaty port

 

Proper nouns

Place names that include "port"

• Burry Port
• Devonport
• Dudley Port
• East Cove Port
• Ellesmere Port
• Freeport
• Gulfport
• Lockport
• Logansport
• Masindi Port
• Newport
• North Port
• Old Port
• Pembrey and Burry Port Town
• Port Adelaide
• Port Allen
• Port Angeles
• Port Antonio
• Port Arthur
• Port Augusta
• Port Bell
• Port Blandford
• Port Canaveral
• Port Carlisle
• Port Chalmers
• Port Chicago
• Port Clarence
• Port Clinton
• Port Dickson
• Port Dundas
• Port Eglinton
• Port Elizabeth
• Port Erin
• Port Eynon
• Port Gibson
• Port Glasgow
• Portgordon
• Port Hedland
• Port Hope
• Port Huron
• Port Isaac
• Port Kembla
• Port Klang
• Port Lavaca
• Port Lincoln
• Port Lyautey
• Port Macquarie
• Port Melbourne
• Port Moody
• Port Nolloth
• Port of Menteith
• Port of Spain
• Port Orchard
• Portpatrick
• Port Pirie
• Port Providence
• Port Royal
• Port Salford
• Port Seton
• Port Soderick
• Port Stephens
• Port St. Joe
• Port St Mary
• Port Sudan
• Port Sunlight
• Port Swettenham
• Port Talbot
• Port Townsend
• Port Victoria
• Port Washington
• Port Weld
• Rock Port
• Searsport
• Tayport
• Teesport
• Westport

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: पोर्ट (porṭ)
• → Russian: порт (port)
• → Thai: พอร์ต (pɔ̂ɔt)

Translations

See port/translations § Etymology 1: Noun.

Adjective

port (not comparable)

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

   on the port side

Synonyms

• larboard, backboard, left

Antonyms

• starboard

Translations

See port/translations § Etymology 1: Adjective.

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.

   Port your helm!

Translations

to turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship

• Bulgarian: завивам наляво (zavivam naljavo)
• Maori: tīrau

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.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     And whan he cam to the porte of the pavelon, Sir Palomydes seyde an hyghe, ‘Where art thou, Sir Trystram de Lyones?’

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     Long were it to describe the goodly frame, / And stately port of Castle Joyeous […] .

   • 1623, Shakespeare, Coriolanus, V.vi:

     Him I accuse / The city ports by this hath enter'd

   • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:

     And from their ivory port the Cherubim, / Forth issuing at the accustomed hour

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.
   • c. 1615, Sir W. Raleigh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass […] :

     […] her ports being within sixteen inches of the water […]

3. (medicine) A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
4. (curling, bowls) A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
5. An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
6. (computing):
   1. A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
   2. A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
   3. (also networking) A number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service.

Hyponyms

• accelerated graphics port
• chase port
• entry port
• game port
• graphics port
• parallel port
• port triggering
• sally port
• serial port
• two-port network
• USB port

 

Derived terms

• air port
• backport
• porthole
• port forwarding
• unport

Translations

See port/translations § Etymology 2: Noun.

Etymology 3

From Old French porter, from Latin portāre (“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.
   • 1662, Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England:

     They are easily ported by boat into other shires.

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.

   Port arms!

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book IV:

     […] the angelic squadron...began to hem him round with ported spears.

3. (computing, video games) To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform.
   • 2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 259:

     By its tenth week of release, CPH was the best-selling PC game in America. PlayStation and Xbox ports were already in the works, and there was talk of porting it to Nintendo.

4. (telephony, transitive) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
   • 2011, Stephen P. Olejniczak, Telecom For Dummies, page 131:

     If you submit a request to port a number, and you list the name on the account as Bob Smith, but your local carrier has the number listed under your wife's name Mary Mahoney, the porting request is rejected.

5. (US, government and law) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Derived terms

• portage
• port arms
• porter
• portly
• port-o-john
• port-o-potty

 

Translations

See port/translations § Etymology 3: Verb.

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:

     Those same with stately grace, and princely port / She taught to tread, when she her selfe would grace […]

   • a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volumes (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:

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

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     For the port, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next, […]

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.

   Gamers can't wait until a port of the title is released on the new system.

   The latest port of the database software is the worst since we made the changeover.

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

• at the high port

Translations

computing: program adapted to work on a different platform; act of adapting

• Finnish: sovitus (fi), sovittaminen (fi), porttaaminen (informal), porttaus (informal)
• Norwegian: porting m
• Spanish: versión portada
• Swahili: mabandari (sw)
• Swedish: portering (sv) c, portning c
• Vietnamese: phiên bản chuyển đổi

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

• Porto, porto, port wine

Coordinate terms

• Madeira, madeira
• Marsala, marsala
• sherry

Derived terms

• claret would be port if it could
• port tong
• port-wine mark
• port-wine stain
• port-winey
• port-winy
• ruby port
• vintage port

 

Translations

fortified wine

• Armenian: պորտվեյն (hy) (portveyn)
• Bulgarian: портвайн m (portvajn)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 砵酒 (but¹ zau²)

• Czech: portské n
• Dutch: porto (nl), port (nl) m
• Estonian: portvein
• Finnish: portviini (fi)
• French: vin de Porto m
• Galician: porto (gl) m
• German: Portwein (de) m
• Greek: πορτό n (portó), (rare) οίνος Πορτογαλίας m (oínos Portogalías)
• Hungarian: portói bor, portói (hu)
• Icelandic: púrtvín n, portvín n
• Irish: pórt m, pórtfhíon m
• Italian: porto (it) m
• Japanese: ポートワイン (pōto wain), ポート・ワイン (pōto wain)
• Korean: 포트 와인 (poteu wain)
• Maori: pōta
• Norman: vîn d'Porto m
• Norwegian: portvin (no) m, (slang) port (no) m
• Polish: porto (pl) n, portwajn (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: vinho do Porto (pt) m
• Russian: портве́йн (ru) m (portvéjn)
• Spanish: vino de Oporto m
• Swahili: mabandari (sw)
• Swedish: portvin (sv) n
• Yiddish: פּאָרטווײַן m (portvayn)

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of portmanteau.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (Queensland) A suitcase or schoolbag.
   • 1964, George Johnston, My Brother Jack:

     No, she just paid up proper-like t' the end of the week, an' orf she went with 'er port, down t' the station, I suppose.

   • 2001, Sally de Dear, The House on Pig Island‎^[2], page 8:

     As they left the classroom, Jennifer pointed at the shelves lining the veranda. “Put your port in there.”
     “What?” asked Penny.
     “Your port - your school bag, silly. It goes in there.”

   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 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.

Derived terms

• school port

 

Etymology 6

Abbreviation of portfolio.

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. (informal) The portfolio of a model or artist.
   • 2011, Debbie Rose Myers, The Graphic Designer's Guide to Portfolio Design, page 53:

     This is a logical way to order your work, but use it only if you're confident the first piece in your port is a strong one. Also note that this style of arrangement works best if all the pieces are in the same category.

See also

• port de bras

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Noun

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

1. port, harbor

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾt]
• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan 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

Derived terms

• aeroport

Related terms

• portuari

Etymology 2

From portar.

Noun

port m (plural ports)

1. (rare or archaic) the action of carrying something from one place to another
2. (rare) the volume a boat or another vehicle can carry

References

• “port” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “port” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese

FWOTD – 11 November 2023

Etymology

Clipping of English report.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pot¹ / pok¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: pot¹ / pok¹
    • Yale: pōt / pōk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pot⁷ / pok⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: pod¹ / pog¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰɔːt̚⁵/, /pʰɔːk̚⁵/

Verb

port

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, transitive, informal) to file a complaint against; to report
   • 1992, Fight Back to School II:

     有，你點放兩隻癲狗嚟打我呀？吓？你講呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你個死肥婆！ [Cantonese, trad.]
     有，你点放两只癫狗嚟打我呀？吓？你讲呀！我要port你、port你，我要port埋你个死肥婆！ [Cantonese, simp.]

     jau⁵, nei⁵ dim² fong³ loeng⁵ zek³ din¹ gau² lei⁴ daa² ngo⁵ aa³? haa²? nei⁵ gong² aa³! ngo⁵ jiu³ pok¹ nei⁵, pok¹ nei⁵, ngo⁵ jiu³ pok¹ maai⁴ nei⁵ go³ sei² fei⁴ po⁴! [Jyutping]

     Yes! Why are you letting these two mad dogs to beat me up? Why, tell me! I'm reporting you, you, and you big fat woman!

   • 2019, “聲音監獄”, in 理想國, spoken by 單立奇 (黃秋生):

     我唔撚食喇我呀！妖，我而家port你呀！我而家port你呀我！ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     ngo⁵ m⁴ lan² sik⁶ laa³ ngo⁵ aa³! jiu², ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ pot¹ nei⁵ aa³! ngo⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ pot¹ nei⁵ aa³ ngo⁵! [Jyutping]

     I'm not fucking gonna eat this shit! Damn, I'm gonna report you now! I'm gonna report you now!

Synonyms

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• 出首 (chūshǒu) (literary)
• 告密 (gàomì)
• 告發／告发 (gàofā)
• 報水／报水 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 控 (literary, or in compounds)
• 檢舉／检举 (jiǎnjǔ)
• 舉報／举报 (jǔbào)

 

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): /ˈpoːˀrt/, [ˈpʰoɐ̯ˀd̥]

Noun

port c (singular definite porten, plural indefinite porte)

1. gate
2. gateway

Declension

Declension of port

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	port	porten	porte	portene
genitive	ports	portens	portes	portenes

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: port
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port.

Noun

port m or n (plural porten)

1. postage

Alternative forms

• porto

Derived terms

• briefport

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: pòrt, port

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: porc, porcs, ports

Etymology 1

Inherited 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

• arriver à bon port
• fille du port
• frais de port
• port de plaisance
• port d’attache

 

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)

Further reading

• “port”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• trop

Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

port (plural portok)

1. (computing) port

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	port	portok
accusative	portot	portokat
dative	portnak	portoknak
instrumental	porttal	portokkal
causal-final	portért	portokért
translative	porttá	portokká
terminative	portig	portokig
essive-formal	portként	portokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	portban	portokban
superessive	porton	portokon
adessive	portnál	portoknál
illative	portba	portokba
sublative	portra	portokra
allative	porthoz	portokhoz
elative	portból	portokból
delative	portról	portokról
ablative	porttól	portoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	porté	portoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	portéi	portokéi

Possessive forms of port
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	portom	portjaim
2nd person sing.	portod	portjaid
3rd person sing.	portja	portjai
1st person plural	portunk	portjaink
2nd person plural	portotok	portjaitok
3rd person plural	portjuk	portjaik

Etymology 2

por +‎ -t

Noun

port

1. accusative singular of por

Icelandic

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin porta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔr̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɔr̥t

Noun

port n (genitive singular ports, nominative plural port)

1. gate, gateway, entryway

Synonyms

• hlið

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

port m (genitive singular poirt, nominative plural poirt)

1. (music) tune

   Is buaine port ná glór na n-éan; is buaine focal ná toice an tsaoil. (proverb)

   A tune is more lasting than the song of birds; a word is more lasting than the wealth of the world.

2. jig (dance)

Declension

Declension of port

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative port poirt Vocative a phoirt a phorta Genitive poirt port Dative port poirt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an port na poirt Genitive an phoirt na bport Dative leis an bport don phort leis na poirt

Derived terms

• portaireacht

Descendants

• →⇒ Yola: portlaghrin

Etymology 2

From Old Irish port (“bank, shore”), borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour”).

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

Declension of port

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative port poirt Vocative a phoirt a phorta Genitive poirt port Dative port poirt

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an port na poirt Genitive an phoirt na bport Dative leis an bport don phort leis na poirt

Derived terms

• aerfort
• Port Láirge
• Port Laoise
• portach
• taobhfort

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
port	phort	bport
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “port”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 port ‘tune’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin portus.

Noun

port m (plural porc)

1. port, harbour

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian portu, from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/

Noun

port m (plural portijiet)

1. harbour, port

   Synonym: (archaic) marsa

Middle English

Noun

port (plural ports)

1. behaviour, bearing
   • late 14th c., Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in Canterbury Tales, line 69:

     And of his port as meeke as is a mayde.

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 portr m, port n, ultimately from Latin porta f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puʈ/
• Rhymes: -uʈ

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/, [porˠt]

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
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

     ...he wolde gan ut of ðam porte...

     ...he desired to go out of the town...

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"

     nu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige.

     Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.

Declension

Declension of port (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	port	portas
accusative	port	portas
genitive	portes	porta
dative	porte	portum

Derived terms

• portcwēn f
• Portesmūþa m
• portgeat n
• portgeriht n
• portherepaþ m
• portmann m
• portstrǣt f
• portwara m
• portweall m
• portweg m
• portwer m
• portġerēfa m

 

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

Declension of port (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	port	portas
accusative	port	portas
genitive	portes	porta
dative	porte	portum

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): /ˈpɔɾt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

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

1. port (for watercraft)
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     As porz d'Espaigne en est passet Rollant

     Roland went to the ports of Spain

Descendants

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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [por͈t]

Noun

port m (genitive puirt, nominative plural puirt)

1. place
2. shore

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	port	portL	puirtL
Vocative	puirt	portL	portuH
Accusative	portN	portL	portuH
Genitive	puirtL	port	portN
Dative	purtL	portaib	portaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: port
• Manx: purt
• Scottish Gaelic: port

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
port	phort or unchanged	port pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

Old Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin portus. First attested in 1471.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /pɔrt/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /pɔrt/

Noun

port m animacy unattested

1. port (a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers)
   • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 135:

     Applicuimus przistalischmy kv portu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)

     [Applicuimus przystalismy ku portu (inde navigantes... applicuimus Samum Act 20, 15)]

Descendants

• Polish: port
  • → Kashubian: pòrt

References

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “port”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “port”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish port. Sense 4 and sense 5 are semantic loans from English port. Doublet of fiord (“fjord”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrt/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔrt
• Syllabification: port

Noun

port m inan (diminutive porcik, related adjective portowy)

1. port (a place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers)
2. port (a town or city containing such a place, a port city)
3. harbor, haven (place of safety)

   Synonyms: azyl, przystań, schronienie

5. (computing) port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)
7. (computing, networking) port (number that delimits a connection for specific processes or parts of a network service)
8. (Middle Polish) goal, aim (intent of one's actions)

   Synonym: cel

9. (Middle Polish) harbor, haven (one who gives a place of safety)
10. (Middle Polish) gate (place where one enters)

    Synonym: wrote

11. (Middle Polish) warehouse

    Synonyms: magazyn, skład

12. (Middle Polish) a type of tax
13. (Middle Polish) papal estate; Further details are uncertain.
    • 1560, M. Krowicki, Obrona nauki‎^[3], page 75:

      izali Papieſz [...]/ niewymamił [...]/ na Ceſárzach/ [...]/ rozmáite Páńſtwá/ Kroleſthwá/ Kxięſtwá/ Powiáty/ Miáſtá/ Porty/ Zamki/ Wśi/ Cżyńſze/ Mytá/ Folwárki/ y inſze rozmáite płáty.

      [izali Papież [...]/ niewymamił [...]/ na Cesarzach/ [...]/ rozmaite Państwa/ Krolestwa/ Księstwa/ Powiaty/ Miastá/ Porty/ Zamki/ Wsi/ Czynsze/ Myta/ Folwarki/ y insze rozmaite płaty.]

Declension

Declension of port

	singular	plural
nominative	port	porty
genitive	portu	portów
dative	portowi	portom
accusative	port	porty
instrumental	portem	portami
locative	porcie	portach
vocative	porcie	porty

Related terms

noun

• aeroport
• awanport
• port lotniczy
• suchy port

 

Descendants

• → Kashubian: pòrt

Further reading

• port in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• port in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “port”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku
• “PORT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku, 01.10.2019
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “port”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 719

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French port, Italian porto, Latin portus.

Noun

port n (plural porturi)

1. port (town with port)

Declension

Declension of port

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) port	portul	(niște) porturi	porturile
genitive/dative	(unui) port	portului	(unor) porturi	porturilor
vocative	portule		porturilor

Related terms

• portuar

See also

• iman

Etymology 2

Verb

port

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔrˠʃt̪/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish port (“tune, melody”).

Noun

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

1. tune

Synonyms

• fonn
• mànran

Derived terms

• puirt à beul

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

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
port	phort
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

Swedish

An entrance leading to the stairwell of an apartment building.

The castle gate of Malmö Castle.

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊʈ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

port c

1. a larger entrance
   1. a (robust) door leading into a larger building, for example an apartment building

      Jag är vid porten, kan du öppna?

      I'm at the door, can you buzz me in?

   2. a doorway
   3. a gate
   4. a portal
2. (computing) a port (logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred)

Usage notes

A non-solid gate, like a grid or mesh gate, is a grind.

Declension

Declension of port

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	port	ports
	definite	porten	portens
plural	indefinite	portar	portars
	definite	portarna	portarnas

Derived terms

• Höga porten
• kyrkport
• porta
• portal
• Porten
• portförbjuda
• portförbud
• portföre
• portgång
• portier
• portik
• portingång
• portklapp
• portkod
• portlider
• portlås
• portnyckel
• porttelefon
• portuppgång
• portvakt
• portvalv
• portåder
• portöppning
• sista lorten stänger porten
• slottsport
• ytterport

 

See also

• grind (“(non-solid) gate”)

Etymology 2

Clipping of portvin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpoːʈ/

Noun

port ?

1. Clipping of portvin (“port wine”).

   Synonym: porto (obsolete)

References

• port in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• port in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• port in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• torp

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English port.

Noun

port (definite accusative portu, plural portlar)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	port
Definite accusative	portu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	port	portlar
Definite accusative	portu	portları
Dative	porta	portlara
Locative	portta	portlarda
Ablative	porttan	portlardan
Genitive	portun	portların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular portum portlarım 2nd singular portun portların 3rd singular portu portları 1st plural portumuz portlarımız 2nd plural portunuz portlarınız 3rd plural portları portları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular portumu portlarımı 2nd singular portunu portlarını 3rd singular portunu portlarını 1st plural portumuzu portlarımızı 2nd plural portunuzu portlarınızı 3rd plural portlarını portlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular portuma portlarıma 2nd singular portuna portlarına 3rd singular portuna portlarına 1st plural portumuza portlarımıza 2nd plural portunuza portlarınıza 3rd plural portlarına portlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular portumda portlarımda 2nd singular portunda portlarında 3rd singular portunda portlarında 1st plural portumuzda portlarımızda 2nd plural portunuzda portlarınızda 3rd plural portlarında portlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular portumdan portlarımdan 2nd singular portundan portlarından 3rd singular portundan portlarından 1st plural portumuzdan portlarımızdan 2nd plural portunuzdan portlarınızdan 3rd plural portlarından portlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular portumun portlarımın 2nd singular portunun portlarının 3rd singular portunun portlarının 1st plural portumuzun portlarımızın 2nd plural portunuzun portlarınızın 3rd plural portlarının portlarının