portorium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From porta (gate), or, as it appears in Plautus, possibly from an earlier stage of the language having an equivalent etymology. Compare portitōrium.

Noun

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portōrium n (genitive portōriī or portōrī); second declension

  1. (in Roman Republic) port duty, levie paid by ships to finance upkeep of public harbours
  2. (in Roman Empire) 1/40 (2.5%) custom-tax on trade between Roman provinces

Declension

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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

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  • 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