Borrowed fromLatinporta(“a gate”). Seeport.

porta (pluralportae)(anatomy)

1. The part of theliver or otherorgan where itsvessels andnerves enter; thehilum.
2. Theforamen of Monro.
   • 1882,Burt Green Wilder,Anatomical Technology:

     theporta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia

• “porta”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• atrop-,Prato,aport,op art,trapo

• IPA^(key):/ˈpoɾta/[ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes:-oɾta
• Syllabification:por‧ta

porta

1. inflection ofportar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈpɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈpɔɾ.ta]

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Inherited fromOld Catalanporta, fromLatinporta, from theProto-Indo-European root*per-(“to pass through”).

porta f (pluralportes)

1. doorway,gateway
2. door

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

porta

1. inflection ofportar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “porta” inDiccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició,Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “porta”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “porta” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porta” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

porta (accusative[please provide],plural[please provide])

1. bigger entrancedoor of courtyard,pylon

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porta

1. third-personsingular past historic ofporter

• Prato

FromOld Galician-Portugueseporta, fromLatinporta.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔɾta/[ˈpɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes:-ɔɾta
• Hyphenation:por‧ta

porta f (pluralportas)

1. door
2. doorway
3. gate

   Synonym:portal

   • c.1295, R. Lorenzo, editor,La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page886:

     quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pelaporta, et ouuerõ a tirar asportas et a enãchar a entrada

     when they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through thegate, and they had to remove thedoors and widen the entrance

4. entrance

   Synonym:entrada

porta

1. inflection ofportar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porta”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porta”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porta”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porta”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porta”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Borrowed fromLatinporta(“entrance, passage, door”).^[1]

• IPA^(key):[ˈportɒ]
• Hyphenation:por‧ta
• Rhymes:-tɒ

porta (pluralporták)

1. parcel of land (with a house on it)
2. hotelreception,reception desk,front desk
3. (figuratively,colloquial)household,house(one's own home)

• portás

• porta inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.

porta

1. indefinitegenitiveplural ofport

Learned borrowing fromLatinporta.Doublet ofportal.

• (Standard Indonesian)IPA^(key):/ˈpɔrta/[ˈpɔr.t̪a]
• Rhymes:-ɔrta
• Syllabification:por‧ta

porta (pluralporta-porta)

1. (anatomy)porta
2. (computing)port

• “porta” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

porta (pluralportas)

1. door

FromLatinporta, from theProto-Indo-European root*per-(“to pass through”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔr.ta/

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• Rhymes:-ɔrta
• Hyphenation:pòr‧ta

porta f (pluralporte)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing)port
4. (soccer)goal

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔr.ta/,/ˈpor.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes:-ɔrta,-orta
• Hyphenation:pòr‧ta,pór‧ta

porta f sg

1. femininesingular ofporto(“(having) given, (having) handed”)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔr.ta/
• Rhymes:-ɔrta
• Hyphenation:pòr‧ta

porta

1. inflection ofportare:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• Prato,parto,potrà,prato,tarpo,tarpò

FromLatinporta(“gate, entrance”).

porta f

1. door

porta

1. inflection ofporter:
   1. third-personsingular/pluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

FromProto-Italic*portā, fromProto-Indo-European*porteh₂, from*per-(“to pass through/over”). Cognate withportus,Ancient Greekπόρος(póros,“means of passage”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpor.ta/,[ˈpɔrt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpor.ta/,[ˈpɔrt̪ä]

porta f (genitiveportae);first declension

1. gate, especially of acity
2. entrance,passage,door

   Synonyms:ingressus,līmen,initium,foris,iānua,ingressiō,vestibulum

   Antonym:abitus

3. (figuratively)way,means

First-declension noun.

Borrowings

Inflected form ofportō(“carry, bear”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈpor.taː/,[ˈpɔrt̪äː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈpor.ta/,[ˈpɔrt̪ä]

portā

1. singularpresentactiveimperative ofportō

• “porta”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porta”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "porta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• porta inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • to go outside the gate:extra portam egredi
    
  • to barricade a door (a city-gate):valvas (portam) obstruere
    
  • to be on duty before the gates:stationes agere pro portis
    
  • to break down the gates:claustra portarum revellere
    
  • (ambiguous) to barricade the gates:portas obstruere (B. G. 5. 50)
    
  • (ambiguous) to break down the gates:portas refringere
    
• “porta”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta inRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “porta”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

porta m

1. genitivesingular ofports

FromPortugueseporta.

porta

1. door

• porta-casa(“front door”)
• porta-trás(“back door”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#p

FromProto-West Germanic*portā, which is a borrowing from Latinporta(“gateway, passage”).

porta f

1. gate

• Middle Dutch:porte(reinforced by Old Frenchporte)
  • Dutch:poort

• “porta”, inOudnederlands Woordenboek,2012

• IPA^(key):/ˈpor.tɑ/,[ˈporˠ.tɑ]

porta

1. genitiveplural ofport

• (Rural Central Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
• Rhymes:(Brazil)-ɔʁtɐ,(Portugal)-ɔɾtɐ
• Hyphenation:por‧ta

FromOld Galician-Portugueseporta, fromLatinporta, from theProto-Indo-European root*per-(“to pass through”).

porta f (pluralportas)

1. door
   • 2005,J. K. Rowling, translated byLia Wyler,Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco,→ISBN, page180:

     Se você não abrir aporta, vamos arrombá-la!

     If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!

2. entrance

   Synonym:entrada

3. (by extension)gateway
4. (by extension)solution

   Synonym:solução

5. (computing)port(connector of an electronic device)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

porta

1. inflection ofportar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “porta”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam,2008–2025
• “porta”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos,2015–2025
• “porta”, inDicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora,2003–2025

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spellingпо̑рта)

1. entrance

• purta(Gallo-italic of Sicily)
• potta(regressively assimilated, dialectal)
• puaitta,puajtta(iotacized, dialectal)

• IPA^(key):/ˈpɔɾ.ta/(standard)
• IPA^(key):[ˈpɔɾ.ta],[ˈpu-],[ˈpwe-],[ˈpwɔ-],[ˈpuɔ̯ɪ̯t.ta],[-t.ta],[pʊˈɔ̯ɪ̯-](dialectal)
• Rhymes:-orta
• Hyphenation:pòr‧ta

FromLatinporta, from theProto-Indo-European root*per-(“to pass through”). Compare, for more,Galician,Portuguese,Italian,Corsican, andNeapolitanporta,Asturian andSpanishpuerta.

porta f (pluralporti)

1. gate
2. door
3. (computing)port
4. (soccer)goal

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

porta

1. inflection ofpurtari:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• IPA^(key):/ˈpoɾta/[ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
• Rhymes:-oɾta
• Syllabification:por‧ta

Borrowed fromLatinporta.Doublet ofpuerta.

porta f (pluralportas)

1. (nautical)porthole

   Synonyms:tronera,ventanilla

2. Obsolete spelling ofpuerta.

porta

1. inflection ofportar:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• “porta”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Shortening ofportförbjuda, fromport(“entrance, gateway, door”) andförbjuda(“prohibit, forbid”).

porta (presentportar,preteriteportade,supineportat,imperativeporta)

1. to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. ashop, apub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)

   Han ärportad från puben

   He'sbanned from the pub

• portera

• porta inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• porta inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• ropat