cloporte

== French == === Etymology === Likely from clore (“to close”) +‎ porte (“door”), from its habit of rolling into a ball. Another possible derivation is from an unattested *croteporque, mirrored in Occitan porquet de crota (“woodlouse”, literally “cave-pig”). In any case, the analysis in the first proposal is probably responsible for the figurative extension of the word to "porter, concierge". === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /klɔ.pɔʁt/ === Noun === cloporte m (plural cloportes) woodlouse (slang) porter, concierge (derogatory) worthless person, vermin; creep (metonymic) hermit === Further reading === “cloporte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012