Port

See also: port, PORT, pórt, port., and Port.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Port

1. Archaic form of Porto (A city in Portugal)
2. A surname.

Etymology 2

Shortened form of Portsmouth created by taking all the letters of the first syllable.

Proper noun

Port

1. (after a qualification) University of Portsmouth, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

Anagrams

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔrt/, [pɔʁt], [pɔɐ̯t], [pɔːt]

Etymology 1

From Middle High German port, borrowed from Old French port, itself borrowed from Latin portus (“harbor”).

Noun

Port m (strong, genitive Portes or Ports, plural Porte)

1. (poetic, highly archaic) haven (place of safety)
2. (obsolete) harbor, port

Declension

Declension of Port [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Port	die	Porte
genitive	eines	des	Portes, Ports	der	Porte
dative	einem	dem	Port, Porte1	den	Porten
accusative	einen	den	Port	die	Porte

¹Now uncommon, see notes.

Descendants

• → Russian: порт (port)

Etymology 2

Noun

Port m (strong, genitive Ports, no plural)

1. Short for Portwein.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English port, ultimately from Latin porta (“gate”).

Noun

Port m (strong, genitive Ports, plural Ports)

1. (computer hardware, networking) port

   Synonyms: Anschluss, Anschlussbuchse, Schnittstelle

Declension

Declension of Port [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Port	die	Ports
genitive	eines	des	Ports	der	Ports
dative	einem	dem	Port	den	Ports
accusative	einen	den	Port	die	Ports

Old English

Etymology

Back-formation from Portesmūþa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /port/, [porˠt]

Proper noun

Port m

1. a male given name attributed to one of the Saxon invaders of Britain, apparently in an inference from Portesmūþa.

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Port”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.