Masculine

puerto

  1. (masculine) port, harbour
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, masculine) ellipsis of puerto de montaña; mountain pass
  3. (masculine) port

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
puer‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpweɾto/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish puerto, from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

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