Noun: port
Gender: m
Nominative
| Singular | port |
| Plural | portas |
Genitive
| Singular | portes |
| Plural | porta |
Dative
| Singular | porte |
| Plural | portum |
Accusative
| Singular | port |
| Plural | portas |
Sample Sentences
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
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...he wolde gan ut of ðam porte... (...he desired to go out of the town...)
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late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
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nu ic wæs of þam rihtan wege mines ingeþances ac betere hit bið þæt ic eft fare ut of þysum porte ðylæs þe ic to swiðe dwelige and for-þy þonne ne cume to minum geferum þe me ær hyder sendon; gewislice ic her ongyten hæbbe þæt me hæfð gelæht fæste mines modes oferstige þæt ic nat na forgeare hu ic hit þus macige. (Now I was in the right way in my inward thought, but better will it be that I go out of this town again lest I be too greatly bewildered, and so may not come to my comrades who erewhile sent me here; certainly I have here perceived that the over anxiety of my mind hath here seized me, so that I know not very certainly why I thus act.)
Nouns inflected like port
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin portus (“harbour, port, haven, warehouse”). See: Latin Nouns '
portus'.
Verbs referencing "port"
English Nouns
port, Danish Nouns
port.
Translations