portarius

Latin

Etymology

Late and Medieval Latin. From porta +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /porˈtaː.ri.us/, [pɔrˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /porˈta.ri.us/, [porˈt̪äːrius]

Noun

portārius m (genitive portāriī or portārī); second declension

1. doorkeeper, gatekeeper
2. porter
3. (New Latin, soccer) goalkeeper

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	portārius	portāriī
Genitive	portāriī portārī1	portāriōrum
Dative	portāriō	portāriīs
Accusative	portārium	portāriōs
Ablative	portāriō	portāriīs
Vocative	portārie	portāriī

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

Descendants

• Aromanian: purtar
• Asturian: porteru
• Catalan: porter
• Occitan: portièr
• Old French: portier
  • Anglo-Norman: portour
    • → Middle English: porter
      • English: porter
        • → French: porter
  • → Middle Dutch: portier
    • Dutch: portier
      • → Indonesian: portir
      • → Papiamentu: pòrtir
  • Middle French: portier
    • French: portier
      • → German: Portier
      • → Italian: portiere
      • → Luxembourgish: Portier
      • → Polish: portier
      • → Russian: портье (portʹje)
      • → Venetian: portier
• Old Galician-Portuguese: porteyro
  • Galician: porteiro
  • Portuguese: porteiro
• Romanian: portar
• Spanish: portero

References

• “portarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• portarius 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)
• portarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.