port

Signification (Anglais)

Concepts

vin de Porto

ébrasement oblique

port de mer

vin de porto

du bâbord

à bâbord

de bâbord

ville portuaire

Embrasure

Opposé de
starboard
Fréquence

B2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/pɔɹt/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

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