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PORT
Male
English
English occupational surname transferred to forename use, PORTER means "doorkeeper."
Female
English
English Shakespeare character name derived from Roman Latin Porcius, PORTIA means "pig." A moon of Uranus was given this name.
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English, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish
English, Scottish, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish : from the Hebrew personal name Gavriel ‘God has given me strength’. This was borne by an archangel in the Bible (Daniel 8:16 and 9:21), who in the New Testament announced the impending birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:26–38). It has been a comparatively popular personal name in all parts of Europe, among both Christians and Jews, during the Middle Ages and since. Compare Michael and Raphael.
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English
English : variant spelling of Porteous.
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English, French, and Portuguese
English, French, and Portuguese : from the female personal name Isabel (see Isbell).Isabel and Isabelle are documented as family names in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1648. Other families, from Normandy, France, are documented in Sainte-Famille, Quebec, in 1669.
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Spanish, Portuguese, French (José)
Spanish, Portuguese, French (José) : from the personal name José, equivalent to Joseph.English : variant of Joyce.
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Portuguese
Portuguese : patronymic from the personal name Pedro (see Peter).Spanish and Jewish (Sephardic) : variant of Perez 2.English : variant of Pierce.Possibly also Hungarian : occupational name from peres ‘procurator’, ‘advocate’ (from per ‘trial’).
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English, Spanish, and Portuguese
English, Spanish, and Portuguese : nickname for a loyal or trustworthy person, from Old French leial, Spanish and Portuguese leal ‘loyal’, ‘faithful (to obligations)’, Latin legalis, from lex, ‘law’, ‘obligation’ (genitive legis).
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : elaborated form of Port.Dutch : from poort ‘gate’ + man ‘man’, an occupational name for a gatekeeper or a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a walled town (typically the man in charge of them). Compare Porter.American spelling of German Portmann.
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Portuguese
Portuguese : occupational name from soeiro ‘swineherd’, Latin suerius.English : patronymic from a nickname for someone with reddish hair, from Anglo-Norman French sor ‘chestnut (color)’.
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Portuguese and Galician
Portuguese and Galician : variant of Marta.Italian : probably from medieval Greek Martios ‘March’ or the Calabrian dialect word marti ‘Tuesday’, in either case probably denoting someone with some particular association with the month or the day.English : variant spelling of Mart 1.German : from a short form of Martin.
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English
English : possibly a variant of Porton, a habitational name from Porton in Wiltshire or Poorton in Dorset; both place names are formed with an obscure first element, perhaps the name of a river, + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.Dutch : habitational name for someone from a place named with Dutch poort ‘gate’.
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Italian (Sicily and Calabria) and Portuguese
Italian (Sicily and Calabria) and Portuguese : topographic name from faro ‘beacon’, ‘lighthouse’ (Greek pharos), or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. Compare Alfaro and Haro.English : variant of Farrow.
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Portuguese, Galician, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic)
Portuguese, Galician, Italian, and Jewish (Sephardic) : habitational name from any of the many places in Portugal, Galicia, and Italy named or named with Ponte, from ponte ‘bridge’.English : variant spelling of Pont.
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English
English : variant spelling of Port.French : from Old French porte ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ (from Latin porta), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town (typically, the man in charge of them).Jewish (Sephardic) : variant of Porta.
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English
English : from Middle English port ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ (Old French porte, from Latin porta), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town or city, typically, the man in charge of them. Compare Porter 1.English : topographic name for someone who lived near a harbor or in a market town, from the homonymous Middle English port (Old English port ‘harbor’, ‘market town’, from Latin portus ‘harbor’, ‘haven’, reinforced in Middle English by Old French port, from the same source).German : topographic name for someone who lived near a (city) gate, from Middle Low German porte (modern German Pforte) (see sense 1).Jewish (from Lithuania and Belarus) : unexplained.
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English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc. : from the Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’. Compare Lucio. The Christian name owed its enormous popularity throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to St. Luke the Evangelist, hence the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in most of the languages of Europe. Compare Luke. This is also found as an Americanized form of Greek Loukas.Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais (see McLucas).As a French name Lucas has been recorded in Canada since 1653, taken to Trois Rivières, Quebec, by one Lucas-Lépine from Normandy.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.
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English (Gloucestershire)
English (Gloucestershire) : possibly a habitational name from Porlock in Somerset, recorded in Domesday Book as Portloc, being named with Old English port ‘harbor’ + loca ‘enclosure’.
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Portuguese
Portuguese : patronymic from the personal name Martim, vernacular form of Latin Martinus (see Martin).English and Dutch : patronymic from the personal name Martin.
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n.
A portmanteau.
n.
Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
n.
A female porter.
n.
One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.
v. t.
To portray; to draw.
v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
a.
Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
imp. & p. p.
of Portray
n.
The art or practice of making portraits.
a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.
v. t.
To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
n.
The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
n. sing. & pl.
A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.
n.
See Portass.
n.
In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town.
n.
A portrait painter.
n.
A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
n.
A port warden.
n.
One who portrays.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Portray