Word Origin Summary

Portāre is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• port

  English · derived from

• portfolio

  English · derived from

• 砵

  Mandarin Chinese · borrowed from

• geporteerd

  Dutch · borrowed from

• port

  Dutch · borrowed from

• portofolio

  Indonesian · derived from

• porter

  French · inherited from

• portefólio

  Portuguese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root