Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1407.porta on page 1407
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porta gate
porta is a Latin Noun that primarily means gate.
Definitions for porta
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
gate, entrance
English derivatives:
portal portico porch porthole
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The gate of a city or town (pl. sts. used of a single gate). (b) (of a camp or other enclosure). (c) (poet. or mythol., of the sky, the Underworld, etc.) (d) (app.) a court or council (held in the gateway in certain Semitic towns, in quot., at Dugga).
- 2
A place of entry or egress, opening, outlet. (b) a principal means of access to a country (in quot., a frontier post); (spec., usu. pl., in the names of certain narrow mountain passes in Asia Minor, sts. guarded by actual gates).
Sentences with porta
Latin to English
Agricola ad portam est vir bonus.Compare The farmer at the gate is a good man.
Davus ad portam stat.Compare Davus stands near the door.
Brevi tempore ad Portam Capena, adveniemus.Compare In a short time we will arrive at the Porta Capena.
Claudo porta, multitudo, ut mors servitus praepono hortans.Compare They closed the gates, exhorting the multitude to prefer death to slavery.
Indicium is res factus, porta repente jussu proconsul clausus, comprehendo omnis, qui in noxa sum, et, quaestio acriter habitus, damno necoque.Compare Information of that fact having been given, and the gates having been suddenly closed by the order of the proconsul, all the guilty parties were seized, and, after the torture have been sharply applied, were condemed and put to death.
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia manes.Compare There are two gates of Sleep: the one is made of horn, they say, and affords the outlet for genuine apparitions; the other's a gate of brightly-shining ivory: this way the Shades send up to earth false dreams that impose upon us.
Declension table for porta
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | porta | portae |
| Gen. | portae | portārum |
| Dat. | portae | portīs |
| Acc. | portam | portās |
| Abl. | portā | portīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 14.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1407.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 125.
Bibliography
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Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "porta, portae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/porta-portae.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 14.porta, portae on page 14
