portico

portico

See also: Portico and pórtico

English

Portico

Etymology

From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/

Noun

portico (plural porticos or porticoes)

1. A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan:

     The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:porch

Derived terms

• porticoed
• porticolike

Translations

small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building

Aramaic: אסטוא‎ m Classical Syriac: ܐܙܓܐ‎ m, ܐܣܛܘܐ‎ m Bengali: রোয়াক (royak) Bulgarian: портик m (portik) Catalan: pòrtic m Danish: porticus c Dutch: portiek (nl) f Esperanto: portiko Finnish: portiikki (fi) French: portique (fr) m Galician: pórtico (gl) m German: Portikus (de) m or f Gothic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 f (ubizwa) Greek: Ancient: στοά f (stoá), αἴθουσα f (aíthousa) Hungarian: tornác (hu), előcsarnok (hu), oszlopos előtér, porticus Italian: portico (it) m, porticato (it) m, pronao (it) m Japanese: ポルチコ (poruchiko) Latin: porticus m, ambulātiō f Macedonian: по́ртик m (pórtik) Maori: kōihi Norwegian: Bokmål: portiko m Persian: ایوان‎ (fa) (eyvân), ستاوند‎ (fa) (setâvand) Polish: portyk (pl) m Portuguese: pórtico (pt) m Russian: по́ртик (ru) m (pórtik) Sanskrit: पिण्ड (sa) m or n (piṇḍa) Slovene: portik m Spanish: pórtico (es) m Swedish: portik (sv) c Turkish: revak (tr), sundurma (tr)

Anagrams

• porotic, prootic

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Italian

Portici (Bologna)

Etymology

From Latin porticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ti.ko/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtiko
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ti‧co

Noun

portico m (plural portici)

1. (architecture) portico, arcade, porch

   Synonym: pronao

Derived terms

• sottoportico

Related terms

• porticato
• porta

Descendants

• → Dutch: portico
• → English: portico
• → Finnish: portiikki

Anagrams

• -tropico, protico, tropico

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English portico, ultimately from Latin porticus.

Noun

portico m (plural porticos)

1. (Jersey) porch