Noun: puerto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: puer‧to
| Singular m | puerto |
| Plural m | puertos |
Sample Sentences
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La espectacular bajada de La Lunada, que empalmará con el puerto de Alisas. (The spectacular descent from La Lunada, that will lead straight onto the Alisas mountain pass.) [2017, “Etapa 17 Villadiego / Los Machucos. Monumento Vaca Pasiega”, in La Vuelta:]
Nouns inflected like puerto
whopper,
egocentrismo,
cervantismo,
nipofilo,
botellazo,
radionúclido,
palenque,
esferoide,
hierodiácono,
miligramo,
entrenamiento,
saxófono,
oligopéptido,
espongocele,
contratiempo,
entrechocamiento,
decímetro,
carrotanque,
mililitro,
mesangio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”). See: Old Spanish Nouns '
puerto', Old Spanish Nouns '
puerto', Latin Nouns '
portus'.
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