porticus

Danish

Etymology

From Latin porticus.

Noun

porticus c

1. (architecture) portico

Inflection

Declension of porticus

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	porticus	porticusen	porticuser	porticuserne
genitive	porticus'	porticusens	porticusers	porticusernes

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Latin

porticus (portico)

Etymology

From porta (“gate, entrance”) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ti.kus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ti.kus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ikus]

Noun

porticus f (genitive porticūs); fourth declension

1. colonnade, arcade
2. portico, porch

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	porticus	porticūs
Genitive	porticūs	porticuum
Dative	porticuī	porticibus
Accusative	porticum	porticūs
Ablative	porticū	porticibus
Vocative	porticus	porticūs

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Catalan: porxo, porxe
    • → Sardinian: porciu, prociu
    • → Spanish: porche
  • Italian: portico
    • → Dutch: portico
    • → English: portico
  • Old French: porche
    • French: porche
    • → Irish: póirse
    • → Latin: porchia
    • → Middle English: porche
      • English: porch
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: pòrtic
  • → Danish: porticus
  • → English: portic, porticus
  • → Finnish: portiikki
  • → French: portique
  • → German: Portikus
  • → Old English: portic
  • → Old High German: pforzih
  • → Portuguese: pórtico
  • → Spanish: pórtico
  • → Swedish: portik

References

• “porticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porticus 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)
• porticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to undertake a contract for building a portico: redimere, conducere porticum aedificandam (Div. 2. 21. 47)
    
• “porticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “porticus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “porticus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin