# porta
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“a gate”). See port.

### Noun

porta (plural portae) (anatomy)
* The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
* The foramen of Monro.
** 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia

#### Related terms

* portal

### References

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

### Anagrams

* atrop-, Prato, aport, op art, trapo

## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpoɾta/ [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -oɾta
* Hyphenation: por‧ta

### Verb

porta
* inflection of portar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔr.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾ.ta]
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

#### Noun

porta f (plural portes)
* doorway, gateway
* door

##### Derived terms

* a porta oberta
* a porta tancada
* picaporta
* porta caladissa
* porta corredissa
* porta d'entrada
* porta giratòria
* porta tallafoc
* portell
* portella
* porter

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

porta
* inflection of portar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

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

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

porta (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

porta
* third-person singular past historic of porter

### Anagrams

* Prato

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔɾta/ [ˈpɔɾ.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾta
* Hyphenation: por‧ta

### Noun

porta f (plural portas)
* door
* doorway
* 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, page 886:quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entradawhen they took it to the town, it couldn't pass through the gate, and they had to remove the doors and widen the entrance
* entrance
    Synonym: entrada

#### Related terms

* Porta
* portal
* porteiro
* portelo

### Verb

porta
* inflection of portar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈportɒ]
* Hyphenation: por‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

porta (plural porták)
* parcel of land (with a house on it)
* hotel reception, reception desk, front desk
* (figuratively, colloquial) household, house (one's own home)

#### Derived terms

* portás

### References

* ↑ porta in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### Further reading

* porta in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Icelandic
### Noun

porta
* indefinite genitive plural of port

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through/over”), probably as a feminine nominalization of *pr-tó- (“passed (through), crossed”). Doublet of portal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔrt̪a]
* Hyphenation: por‧ta

### Noun

porta (plural)
* (anatomy) porta.
* (computing) port.

#### Compounds

* porta inframerah
* porta panel datar digital
* porta permainan
* porta serial

### Further reading

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

## Interlingua
### Noun

porta (plural portas)
* door

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔr.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

#### Noun

porta f (plural porte)
* gate
* door
* (computing) port
* (soccer) goal

##### Related terms

* alle porte
* porta a porta
* porta USB
* portale
* portello
* porticina
* portico
* portiera
* portiere
* portinaio
* portone

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔr.ta/, /ˈpor.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta, -orta
* Hyphenation: pòr‧ta, pór‧ta

#### Participle

porta f sg
* feminine singular of porto (“(having) given, (having) handed”)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔr.ta/
* Rhymes: -ɔrta
* Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

#### Verb

porta
* inflection of portare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ porta in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Prato, parto, potrà, prato, tarpo, tarpò

## Italiot Greek
### Etymology

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

### Noun

porta f
* door

## Ladin
### Verb

porta
* inflection of porter:
** third-person singular/plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *portā, from Proto-Indo-European *porteh₂, from *per- (“to pass through/over”). Cognate with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

porta f (genitive portae); first declension
* gate, especially of a city
* entrance, passage, door
    Synonyms: ingressus, līmen, initium, foris, iānua, ingressiō, vestibulum
    Antonym: abitus
* (figuratively) way, means

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* porta itinerī longissima
* portāle
** → English: portal
** → Italian: portale
** → Spanish: portal
* portārius
* portella
* porticus
* portō
* portōrium
* portula

##### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: poartã
** Istro-Romanian: poartĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: poartă
** Romanian: poartă
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: puerta, porta
** Leonese: puerta
** Mirandese: puorta
** Old Galician-Portuguese: porta
*** Galician: porta
*** Portuguese: porta
** Spanish: puerta (see there for further descendants)
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: porta
** Dalmatian: puarta
** Istriot: puorta
** Italian: porta
** Neapolitan: porta, puorta
** Sicilian: porta
** Venetan: porta
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: porta
** Occitan: pòrta
* Oïl:
** Bourguignon: pote
** French: porte
** Walloon: poite
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: puarte
** Romansch: porta
* Sardinian:
** polta, porta, pota

###### Borrowings

* → Albanian: portë
* → Basque: borta
* → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)
* → English: porta (learned)
* → Esperanto: pordo
* → Proto-West Germanic: *portā (see there for further descendants)
* → Byzantine Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
** Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
** Pontic Greek: πόρτα (pórta)
*** → Laz: პოტრა (p̌oťra), ფოტრა (poťra) — Vizha
** → Bulgarian: порта (porta)
** → Old Church Slavonic: поръта (porŭta)
* → Ido: pordo

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of portō (“carry, bear”).

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Verb

portā
* singular present active imperative of portō

### References

* “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “porta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "porta", 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)
* porta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* porta in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “porta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Latvian
### Noun

porta m
* genitive singular of ports

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese porta.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

porta
* door

#### Derived terms

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

### References

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

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *portā, which is a borrowing from Latin porta (“gateway, passage”).

### Noun

porta f
* gate

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: porte (reinforced by Old French porte)
** Dutch: poort

#### Further reading

* “porta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpor.tɑ/, [ˈporˠ.tɑ]

### Noun

porta
* genitive plural of port

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔh.tɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.tɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.tɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔɻ.ta/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɔɾ.tɐ/
* (Rural Central Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔʁtɐ, (Portugal) -ɔɾtɐ
* Hyphenation: por‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”).

#### Noun

porta f (plural portas)
* door
** 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 180:Se você não abrir a porta, vamos arrombá-la!If you are not going to open the door, we will break it down!
* entrance
    Synonym: entrada
* (by extension) gateway
* (by extension) solution
    Synonym: solução
* (computing) port (connector of an electronic device)

##### Derived terms

* à porta fechada
* ao pé da porta
* burro como uma porta
* dar com a porta na cara
* falar com uma porta
* porta a porta
* porta aberta
* porta de água
* porta de correr
* porta do cavalo
* porta giratória
* portinha
* portona
* surdo como uma porta

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

porta
* inflection of portar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)
* entrance

#### Declension
## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Compare, for more, Galician, Portuguese, Italian, Corsican, and Neapolitan porta, Asturian and Spanish puerta.

#### Noun

porta f (plural porti)
* gate
* door
* (computing) port
* (soccer) goal

##### Derived terms

* diportu
* dipurtari
* mpurtanti
* mpurtari
* purtari
* purtata
* purtatu
* purtazza
* purteri
* purticatu
* purticeḍḍa
* purtinaru
* purtinarìa
* purtuni
* pòrticu
* sport
* spurtari
* spurteḍḍu

##### Related terms

* catinazzu
* catinazzu di abbrazzu
* chiavi
* chiùdiri
* ncasari
* nchiavari
* ràpiri
* sirratura
* sporta
* vutari

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

porta
* inflection of purtari:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

##### Derived terms

* pigghia e porta

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpoɾta/ [ˈpoɾ.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -oɾta
* Syllabification: por‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin porta. Doublet of puerta.

#### Noun

porta f (plural portas)
* (nautical) porthole
    Synonyms: tronera, ventanilla
* Obsolete spelling of puerta.

##### Derived terms

* vena porta

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

porta
* inflection of portar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “porta”, in Diccionario 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

Shortening of portförbjuda, from port (“entrance, gateway, door”) and förbjuda (“prohibit, forbid”).

### Verb

porta (present portar, preterite portade, supine portat, imperative porta)
* to forbid somebody to enter, e.g. a shop, a pub or similar (often due to bad behavior during a previous visit)
    Han är portad från pubenHe's banned from the pub

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

### See also

* portera

### References

* porta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* porta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* ropat