English word port comes from Latin porta, and later Latin porto (I carry, bear. I convey, bring.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| porta | Latin (lat) | (figuratively) way, means. Entrance, passage, door. Gate, especially of a city. |
| porto | Latin (lat) | I carry, bear. I convey, bring. |
| porter | Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) | To carry. To carry a child (to be pregnant). |
| port | English (en) | (archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an [...] |