Port

Morpheme

Port

Type

free base

Denotation

entrance, passage, door, gate

Etymology

Middle English porte; Old French porte; Latin porta

Evidence

airport, carport, passport, portal, portalize, portego, portico, porticus, portcullis, porthole, portlet, spaceport

Notes

some semantic overlap with (<Port>) from Latin porta and Latin portāre
portego, portico, porticus, and porch are doublets

See Also

Porch

Homographs

Port, Port