portarius
Latin
Etymology
Late and Medieval Latin. From porta + -ārius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /porˈtaː.ri.us/, [pɔrˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /porˈta.ri.us/, [porˈt̪äːrius]
Noun
portārius m (genitive portāriī or portārī); second declension
- doorkeeper, gatekeeper
- porter
- (New Latin, soccer) goalkeeper
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | portārius | portāriī |
Genitive | portāriī portārī1 | portāriōrum |
Dative | portāriō | portāriīs |
Accusative | portārium | portāriōs |
Ablative | portāriō | portāriīs |
Vocative | portārie | portāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Aromanian: purtar
- Asturian: porteru
- Catalan: porter
- Occitan: portièr
- Old French: portier
- Anglo-Norman: portour
- → Middle English: porter
- English: porter
- → French: porter
- English: porter
- → Middle English: porter
- → Middle Dutch: portier
- Dutch: portier
- → Indonesian: portir
- → Papiamentu: pòrtir
- Dutch: portier
- Middle French: portier
- French: portier
- → German: Portier
- → Italian: portiere
- → Luxembourgish: Portier
- → Polish: portier
- → Russian: портье (portʹje)
- → Venetian: portier
- French: portier
- Anglo-Norman: portour
- Old Portuguese: porteyro
- Galician: porteiro
- Portuguese: porteiro
- Romanian: portar
- Spanish: portero
References
- “portarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- portarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- portarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette