portus

== Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈportus/ Rhymes: -ortus Syllabification: por‧tus === Verb === portus 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 harbor, port haven, refuge, asylum, retreat warehouse ==== Declension ==== Fourth-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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. “portus”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN