portus
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See also: Portus
Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]portus
- conditional of porti
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”). Cognates include Northern Kurdish pir (“bridge”), Russian пере́ть (perétʹ, “push forward”), Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”) and Old English ford (English ford). See also porta.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.tus/, [ˈpɔrt̪us]
- Homophone: Portus
Noun
[edit]portus m (genitive portūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | portus | portūs |
genitive | portūs | portuum |
dative | portuī | portibus |
accusative | portum | portūs |
ablative | portū | portibus |
vocative | portus | portūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Corsican: portu
- Gallurese: poltu
- Italian: porto
- Neapolitan: puorto
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: port
- Old Galician-Portuguese: porto
- Old Spanish: puerto
- Spanish: puerto
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: poltu, portu
- Sicilian: portu
- Venetan: porto
- → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)
- → Old French: port
- → Faroese: portur
- → Proto-West Germanic: *port (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: port (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Polish: port (learned)
References
[edit]- “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “portus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- portus 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)
- portus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
- the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
- the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
- to be unable to land: portu, terra prohiberi (B. C. 3. 15)
- to keep the coast and harbours in a state of blockade: litora ac portus custodia clausos tenere
- to take refuge in philosophy: in portum philosophiae confugere
- “portus”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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- Esperanto non-lemma forms
- Esperanto verb forms
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (fare)
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with homophones
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin terms with quotations
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