Port Isabel

English

Etymology

From port +‎ Isabel. From Spanish Isabel (“Elizabeth”). Calque of Spanish Puerto Isabella, from puerto +‎ Isabella, from Queen Isabella of Spain, the first queen of United Spain (Isabella I of Castile)

Proper noun

Port Isabel

1. A city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.
   • 2025 November 4, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Gamboa, 52, initially was held at Texas’s Webb county detention center before being transferred to another facility in the state in Port Isabel.

Translations

Port Isabel, Cameron, Texas, USA

• Spanish: Puerto Isabel, Port Isabel

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Port Isabel, from Spanish Puerto Isabela, from puerto +‎ Isabela, from Isabel, from Queen Isabel of Spain, the first queen of United Spain (Isabel I de Castilla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɾtisaˈbel/ [poɾ.t̪i.saˈβ̞el]
• Rhymes: -el

Proper noun

Port Isabel ?

1. Port Isabel (a city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States)

   Synonyms: Puerto Isabel, Puerto Isabella