portus

See also: Portus

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈportus/

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• Rhymes: -ortus
• Syllabification: por‧tus

Verb

portus

1. conditional of porti

Latin

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.tus]
• Homophone: Portus

Noun

portus m (genitive portūs); fourth declension

1. harbor, port
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.863:

     venīmus in portum

     We are approaching the port

2. haven, refuge, asylum, retreat
3. warehouse

Declension

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

• angiportus
• Argōus Portus
• importūnus
• oportūnus
• portitor
• Portucale
• Portūnus
• portuōsus
• Portus
• Portus Magnus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: poltu, portu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: portu
    • Gallurese: poltu
  • Italian: porto
    • ⇒ Slavomolisano: lupuort
  • Neapolitan: puorto
  • Sicilian: portu
    • → Maltese: port
  • Venetan: porto
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: puart
  • Ladin: port
  • Romansh: port
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: pôrt
  • Romagnol: pôrt, pört
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: port
    • Catalan: port
  • Old Occitan: port
    • Occitan: pòrt
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: puertu, puerto, puirtu, puorto, puörtu, porto, portu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: porto
    • Galician: porto
    • Portuguese: porto
      • → Tetum: portu
  • Old Spanish: puerto
    • Ladino: puerto, porto, פואירטו
    • Spanish: puerto (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: port
• → Faroese: portur
• → Ido: portuo
• → Old French: port (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: port (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Polish: port
  • Polish: port
    • → Kashubian: pòrt
• → Proto-Brythonic: *porθ (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *port (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: port

Further reading

• “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, 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
    
• “portus”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press