Porto

See also: porto, portó, portò, pôrto, and Pôrto

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.

  • (wine): the name of the city whence it was exported.

Proper noun

Porto

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

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

Porto (plural Portos)

  1. A port wine.
  2. (by extension) A generic port wine; a wine of the style of Porto.
  3. (by extension) Fortified wine.

Hypernyms

Anagrams

Catalan

Proper noun

Porto ?

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ.to/

Proper noun

Porto f

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

Galician

Etymology

From porto (pass; ford; harbour).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɔɾtʊ]

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. a large number of villages and parishes throughout Galicia, Spain
  2. a toponymical surname
  3. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  4. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)

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

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔʁto/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Porto n

  1. 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

  1. a city in northern Portugal

Descendants

  • Portuguese: Porto

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Porto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.tɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrtɔ
  • Syllabification: Por‧to
  • Homophone: porto

Proper noun

Porto n (indeclinable)

  1. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)
  2. Porto (a city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal)
nouns

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Porto, from Latin Portus (Cale) (modern city of Vila Nova de Gaia), from portus (port).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Porto m

  1. Porto (a city and municipality, the former district capital of the district of Porto, Portugal)
    Synonym: (nickname) Invicta / Cidade Invicta
    Cidade do PortoCity of Porto
  2. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Porto”, in Dicionário infopédia da Toponímia (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026