porte

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) door
2. (feminine) gate (to a city, at airport)
3. (feminine, figuratively) gateway, means, door

Verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person) inflection of porter:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of porter:

Concepts

door

🚪

gate

doorway

gateway

entrance

portal

shutter

doors

threshold

fool

hatch

mouth

opening

side entrance

slab

wall

carriage entrance

Dutch door

room access

sealed door

logic gate

carved wooden door

approach

doorway cover

back door

buttonhole

carve

down

entry

entryway

fire door

floodgate

Synonyms

huis

🚪

entrée

portière

battant

passerelle

portail

encadrement

insensé

ouverture

passage

point d’accès

porter

bouche

seuil

tailler

transition

battant de porte

ferme la porte

bois

🪵

voie d’accès

bouchoir

embrasure d’une porte

embrasure de la porte

Fonction logique

boutonnière

gateway

bouchon

fonction logique

Translations

puerta

🚪

Tür

🚪

porta

🚪

porta

porta

deur

🚪

kapı

🚪

Tor

πόρτα

portão

θύρα

ianua

poort

derî

🚪

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔʁt/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French: porte

Inherited from Latin: porta

Cognate with English: portal

In summary

Inherited from Old French porte, from Latin porta, from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (“to pass through”). Compare English portal.

Sentences

Aujourd'hui , une rue porte son nom .

Today, a street bears his name.

À gauche , près de la porte , un buffet .

On the left, near the door, a buffet.

À gauche , premier plan , porte donnant sur les appartements .

On the left, foreground, door overlooking the apartments.

Il se porte parfois avec une petite cape dans la même étoffe .

It is sometimes worn with a small cape in the same fabric.

La porte de gauche est murée .

The left door is walled.

Une fois la porte ouverte , tout le monde s’engouffra dans la cour .

Once the door was open, everyone rushed into the courtyard.