# Porto
## English
### Alternative forms

* (city): Oporto, O Porto, Port
* (wine): Oporto, O Porto, Port, oporto, o porto, porto, port, Oporto wine, O Porto wine, Porto wine, Port wine, oporto wine, o porto wine, porto wine, port wine

### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.
* (wine): the name of the city whence it was exported.

### Proper noun

Porto
* A city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal.
* A district in northern Portugal.

#### Derived terms

* Porto flip
* port, porto

#### Translations
### Noun

Porto (plural Portos)
* port wine
* by extension, generic port wine, wine of the style of Porto
* by extension, fortified wine

#### Hypernyms

* fortified wine
* wine

### Anagrams

* Troop, poort, proto-, Topor, tropo, Proto, tropo-, troop, proot, proto

## Catalan
### Proper noun

Porto ?
* Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
* Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

#### Related terms

* portuenc

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔʁ.to/

### Proper noun

Porto f
* Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
* Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

## Galician
### Etymology

From porto (“pass; ford; harbour”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔɾtʊ]

### Proper noun

Porto m
* a large number of villages and parishes throughout Galicia, Spain
* a toponymical surname
* Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
* Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

#### Related terms

* Porto do Son
* Portocamba
* Portocelo
* Portomarín
* Portomourisco
* Portomouro
* Portosiño
* portuense

### References

* “Porto” in Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Miguel Solla, Aquén. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2007-2017.
* “Porto” in Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo / Xulio Sousa Fernández (dirs.): Cartografía dos apelidos de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

## German
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔʁto/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Porto n
* postage (charge)

#### Derived terms

* Nachporto
* Strafporto

### Further reading

* “Porto” in Duden online
* “Porto” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Proper noun

Porto
* A city in northern Portugal.

#### Descendants

* Portuguese: Porto

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "Porto"

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔr.tɔ/
* Rhymes: -ɔrtɔ
* Syllabification: Por‧to
* Homophone: porto

### Proper noun

Porto n (indeclinable)
* Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
* Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

#### Related terms

* porto

### Further reading

* Porto in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Porto in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* O Porto
* Pôrto (superseded)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Porto, from Latin Portus (Cale) (modern city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus (“port”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoh.tu]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoh.tu]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈpoɾ.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoχ.tu]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpoɻ.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpoɾ.tu/
* (Porto) IPA: /ˈp(w)oɾ.tu/, /ˈpwɐɾ.tu/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾtu, (Brazil) -oʁtu
* Homophone: porto
* Hyphenation: Por‧to
* Audio (Portugal):(file)

### Proper noun

Porto m
* Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)
    Cidade do Porto ― City of Porto
* Porto (a district in northern Portugal)

#### Derived terms

* portuense
* portista

### References

* ↑ “Porto”, in Dicionário infopédia de Toponímia (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025