portorium
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From porta (“gate”), or, as it appears in Plautus, possibly from an earlier stage of the language having an equivalent etymology. Compare portitōrium.
Noun
[edit]portōrium n (genitive portōriī or portōrī); second declension
- (in Roman Republic) port duty, levie paid by ships to finance upkeep of public harbours
- (in Roman Empire) 1/40 (2.5%) custom-tax on trade between Roman provinces
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | portōrium | portōria |
Genitive | portōriī portōrī1 |
portōriōrum |
Dative | portōriō | portōriīs |
Accusative | portōrium | portōria |
Ablative | portōriō | portōriīs |
Vocative | portōrium | portōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
[edit]- “portorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “portorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- portorium 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)
- portorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “portorium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “portorium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin