porta

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

porta (plural portae) (anatomy)

1. The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
2. The foramen of Monro.
   • 1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:

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

• “porta”, in Webster’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 of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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

porta f (plural portes)

1. doorway, gateway
2. door
3. (electronics) gate

   Coordinate terms: drenador, font

• portal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “porta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “porta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “porta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “porta”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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

1. bigger entrance door of courtyard, pylon

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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porta

1. third-person singular past historic of porter

• Prato

From Old Galician-Portuguese porta, from Latin porta.

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

porta f (plural portas)

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, page 886:

     quando a meterõ ena vila, nõ pode caber pela porta, et ouuerõ a tirar as portas et a enãchar a entrada

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

4. entrance

   Synonym: entrada

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “porta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “porta”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

Borrowed from Latin porta (“entrance, passage, door”).^[1]

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

porta (plural porták)

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

• portás

• porta in Géza 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. indefinite genitive plural of port

Learned borrowing from Latin porta. Doublet of portal.

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

porta (plural porta-porta)

1. (anatomy) porta (a short vein that carries blood into the liver)
2. port
   1. (computing) a logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred.
   2. (computing) a female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.

• (computing): port

• “porta”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

porta (plural portas)

1. door

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ta

porta f (plural porte)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

porta f sg

1. feminine singular of porto (“(having) given, (having) handed”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

porta

1. inflection of portare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Prato, parto, potrà, prato, tarpo, tarpò

From Latin porta (“gate, entrance”).

porta f

1. door

porta

1. inflection of porter:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Italic *portā, from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂, the feminine form of a perfect passive participle from *per- (“to pass through/over”). Cognate with portus, Ancient Greek πόρος (póros, “means of passage”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.ta]

porta f (genitive portae); first declension

1. gate, especially of a city
2. entrance, passage, door

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

   Antonym: abitus

3. (figuratively) way, means

First-declension noun.

Borrowings:

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.taː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔr.ta]

portā

1. singular present active imperative of portō

• “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, 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^[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”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porta in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], 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
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 482

porta m

1. genitive singular of ports

From Portuguese porta.

porta

1. door

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

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

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

porta f

1. gate

• Middle Dutch: porte (reinforced by Old French porte)
  • Dutch: poort
    • Afrikaans: poort

• “porta”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈpor.tɑ/, [ˈporˠ.tɑ]

porta

1. genitive plural of port

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹ.tɐ/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔʁtɐ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -ɔɾtɐ
• Hyphenation: por‧ta

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

porta f (plural portas)

1. 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!

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 corresponding lemma form.

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “porta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “porta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “porta”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “porta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

pȏrta f (Cyrillic spelling по̑рта)

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

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.

porta f (plural porti)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

porta

1. inflection of purtari:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

Borrowed from Latin porta. Doublet of puerta.

porta f (plural portas)

1. (nautical) porthole

   Synonyms: tronera, ventanilla

2. obsolete spelling of puerta

porta

1. inflection of portar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “porta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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

porta (present portar, preterite portade, supine portat, imperative porta)

1. 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 puben

   He's banned from the pub

• portera

• “porta”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “porta”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• ropat