Puerto Rico

See also: Puerto-Rico

English

Alternative forms

• Porto Rico

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico (literally “Rich Port”). In English, the name is commonly pronounced and was formerly spelled Porto Rico; many other Spanish Puerto placenames were formerly also anglicized to Porto.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔɹtəˈɹikoʊ/, [ˌpɔɹɾəˈɹikoʊ]
• (Puerto Rican) IPA^(key): /ˌpwɛəɹtoʊˈɹikoʊ/

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. A self-governing Commonwealth in the Caribbean which is a territory of the United States.

   Synonyms: (official name) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, (symbol) PR

2. The island comprising most of that territory.

   The indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico was 'Borikén', which literally means "Land of the Valiant Lord".

Related terms

• Puerto Rican

Translations

Caribbean Commonwealth

• Arabic: بُورْتُو رِيكُو‎ m (burtū rīkū)
• Armenian: Պուերտո Ռիկո (Puerto Ṙiko)
• Breton: Puerto Rico (br)
• Catalan: Puerto Rico (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 波多黎各 (bo¹ do¹ lai⁴ gok³)

  Mandarin: 波多黎各 (zh) (Bōduōlígè)

• Czech: Portorico n, Portoriko (cs) n
• Danish: Puerto Rico (da)
• Dutch: Puerto Rico (nl), Porto Rico
• Esperanto: Portoriko, Puerto-Riko, Porto-Riko
• Faroese: Puerto Riko
• Finnish: Puerto Rico (fi)
• French: Porto Rico (fr) m, Puerto Rico (fr) m
• Galician: Porto Rico (gl) m
• Georgian: პუერტო-რიკო (ṗuerṭo-riḳo)
• German: Puerto Rico (de) n
• Greek: Πουέρτο Ρίκο (el) n (Pouérto Ríko), Πόρτο Ρίκο n (Pórto Ríko)
• Hawaiian: Pokoliko
• Hebrew: פורטו ריקו‎ (porto riko)
• Hungarian: Puerto Rico (hu)
• Icelandic: Púertó Ríkó
• Ido: Porto-Riko (io)
• Interlingua: Puerto Rico

• Italian: Porto Rico (it) m
• Japanese: プエルトリコ (ja) (Puerutoriko)
• Korean: 푸에르토리코 (ko) (Puereutoriko)
• Latin: Portus Dives
• Latvian: Puertoriko f
• Lithuanian: Puerto Rikas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Портори́ко n (Portoríko)
• Maltese: Porto Riko
• Norman: Puerto Rico m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Puerto Rico

  Nynorsk: Puerto Rico

• Polish: Portoryko (pl) n, Puerto Rico (pl) n
• Portuguese: Porto Rico (pt)
• Romanian: Porto Rico, Puerto Rico
• Russian: Пуэ́рто-Ри́ко m (Puérto-Ríko)
• Serbo-Croatian: Portoriko (sh) m, Porto Riko m
• Slovak: Portoriko
• Spanish: Puerto Rico (es) m
• Swedish: Puerto Rico (sv)
• Thai: ปวยร์โตริโก (bpuai-dtoo-rí-gôo)
• Turkish: Porto Riko (tr)
• Yoruba: Pọto Riko

See also

• boricua
• San Juan
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Further reading

• Puerto Rico on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico

Related terms

• puertoricaner, puertorikaner
• puertoricansk, puertorikansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Spanish Puerto Rico

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico

Related terms

• puertoricanar, puertorikanar
• puertoricansk, puertorikansk

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Puerto-Rico (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /ˌpweɾto ˈriko/, [ˌpweɾ.t̪o ˈri.ko]
• (Puerto Rico) IPA^(key): /ˌpwe̞lto̞ˈχiko̞/

Proper noun

Puerto Rico

1. Puerto Rico (an island and territory of the United States in the Caribbean Sea)

   Synonym: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico