Noun: porta
| Singular | porta |
| Plural | portae |
Sample Sentences
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the porta permits the passage of injection mass from the aula into the procælia [1882, Burt Green Wilder, Anatomical Technology:]
Nouns inflected like porta
rimoportula,
setula,
semita,
scapha,
sicula,
bistropha,
apertura,
hemidrachma,
zoochlorella,
pseudonavicella,
chartula,
reticula,
fasciola,
pterygomaxillary fossa,
glenoid fossa,
rhamphotheca,
subucula,
synusia,
filopluma,
gonotheca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin porta (“a gate”). See port. See: Latin Nouns '
porta'.