Porto

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

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

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

Derived terms

• port, porto

Translations

city in Portugal

• Arabic: بُورْتُو f (burtū), (archaic) بُرْتُقَال (ar) (burtuqāl)

  Hijazi Arabic: بورتو f (bōrtu)

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 波圖／波图 (bo¹ tou⁴)

  Mandarin: 波爾圖／波尔图 (zh) (Bō'ěrtú) (Mainland China), 波多 (zh) (Bōduō) (Taiwan)

• Danish: Porto
• French: Porto (fr)
• Galician: Porto (gl) m
• Portuguese: Porto (pt) m
• Spanish: Oporto (es)
• Swedish: Porto (sv)

Noun

Porto (plural Portos)

1. port wine
2. by extension, generic port wine, wine of the style of Porto
3. by extension, fortified wine

Hypernyms

• fortified wine
• wine

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Proper noun

Porto ?

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

Related terms

• portuenc

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
2. a toponymical surname
3. 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

Porto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁto/

• Audio:

  (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

• Universo Cantigas - "Porto"

Polish

Porto

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)

Related terms

nouns

• porto

 

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Porto

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^(key): /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoh.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoh.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʁ.tu/ [ˈpoχ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɻ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɾ.tu/

• (Porto) IPA^(key): /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

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

   Cidade do Porto ― City of Porto

2. Porto (a district in northern Portugal)

Derived terms

• portuense
• portista