"portico" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: porticos [plural], porticoes [plural], portici [plural]
Etymology: From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*per- (fare)}}, {{bor|en|it|portico}} Italian portico, {{der|en|la|porticus||porch}} Latin porticus (“porch”), {{doublet|en|porch|portego|porticus}} Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus Head templates: {{en-noun|s|porticoes|portici}} portico (plural porticos or porticoes or portici)
  1. A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building. Wikipedia link: portico Categories (topical): Architectural elements Derived forms: porticoed, porticolike Translations (small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building): στοά (stoá) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), αἴθουσα (aíthousa) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), אסטוא [masculine] (Aramaic), ܐܙܓܐ [Classical-Syriac, masculine] (Aramaic), ܐܣܛܘܐ [Classical-Syriac, masculine] (Aramaic), রোয়াক (rōẇak) (Bengali), портик (portik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), pòrtic [masculine] (Catalan), porticus [common-gender] (Danish), portiek [feminine] (Dutch), portiko (Esperanto), portiikki (Finnish), portique [masculine] (French), pórtico [masculine] (Galician), Portikus [feminine, masculine] (German), 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰 (ubizwa) [feminine] (Gothic), tornác (Hungarian), előcsarnok (Hungarian), oszlopos előtér (Hungarian), porticus (Hungarian), portico [masculine] (Italian), porticato [masculine] (Italian), pronao [masculine] (Italian), ポルチコ (poruchiko) (Japanese), porticus [masculine] (Latin), ambulātiō [feminine] (Latin), по́ртик (pórtik) [masculine] (Macedonian), kōihi (Maori), portiko [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ایوان (eyvân) (Persian), ستاوند (setâvand) (Persian), portyk [masculine] (Polish), pórtico [masculine] (Portuguese), по́ртик (pórtik) [masculine] (Russian), पिण्ड (piṇḍa) [masculine, neuter] (Sanskrit), portik [masculine] (Slovene), pórtico [masculine] (Spanish), portik [common-gender] (Swedish), revak (Turkish), sundurma (Turkish)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.",
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          "text": "The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.",
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          "ref": "1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:",
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          "ref": "1971, Carlo Galassi Paluzzi, Roman Churches, Italian State Tourist Office, page 44, column 1:",
          "text": "[…] Porticus Milliaria (portico of the thousand paces) which was the longest, if not the most attractive, of the many portici of ancient Rome.",
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          "ref": "1996 November 10, Robert Hellenga, “Bologna through medieval eyes”, in The New York Times Magazine, pages 40–42:",
          "text": "The portici enhance street life today, as they did when they were first constructed, not simply by providing protection from sun and rain, but by providing attractive public spaces for friends to meet, for business people to conduct business, for vendors to display their wares, for musicians to play their music and for beggars to beg. […] Most tours of Bologna begin in the Piazza Maggiore, on the site of the Roman forum, but it’s important to remember that the piazza didn’t begin to take its present shape till toward the end of the 13th century—after the age of medieval towers, after the citizens began to enjoy their portici.",
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          "ref": "2016, Roger S. Bagnall, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Akın Ersoy, Cumhur Tanrıver, editors, Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press, →ISBN, page 433:",
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      "expansion": "Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus",
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  "etymology_text": "From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus.",
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        "plural"
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        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Classical Syriac translations",
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        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
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        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Gothic translations",
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        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
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        {
          "ref": "1732, [Awnsham Churchill; John Churchill], A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. […], volume VI, London: […] Messʳˢ Churchill, for John Walthoe, […]; Tho. Wotton, […], page 723, column 2:",
          "text": "The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:",
          "text": "The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Carlo Galassi Paluzzi, Roman Churches, Italian State Tourist Office, page 44, column 1:",
          "text": "[…] Porticus Milliaria (portico of the thousand paces) which was the longest, if not the most attractive, of the many portici of ancient Rome.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996 November 10, Robert Hellenga, “Bologna through medieval eyes”, in The New York Times Magazine, pages 40–42:",
          "text": "The portici enhance street life today, as they did when they were first constructed, not simply by providing protection from sun and rain, but by providing attractive public spaces for friends to meet, for business people to conduct business, for vendors to display their wares, for musicians to play their music and for beggars to beg. […] Most tours of Bologna begin in the Piazza Maggiore, on the site of the Roman forum, but it’s important to remember that the piazza didn’t begin to take its present shape till toward the end of the 13th century—after the age of medieval towers, after the citizens began to enjoy their portici.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Roger S. Bagnall, Roberta Casagrande-Kim, Akın Ersoy, Cumhur Tanrıver, editors, Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and New York University Press, →ISBN, page 433:",
          "text": "These lines are possibly meant to represent two portici flanking the building on its long sides.",
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      "code": "arc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "אסטוא"
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      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ܐܙܓܐ"
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      "code": "syc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ܐܣܛܘܐ"
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      "code": "bn",
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      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "রোয়াক"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "portik",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "портик"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "pòrtic"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "porticus"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "portiek"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "portiko"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "portiikki"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "portique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pórtico"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Portikus"
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      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "ubizwa",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌶𐍅𐌰"
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "stoá",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "στοά"
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "aíthousa",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "αἴθουσα"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "tornác"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "előcsarnok"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "oszlopos előtér"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "porticus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porticato"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pronao"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "poruchiko",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "ポルチコ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porticus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ambulātiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pórtik",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "по́ртик"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "kōihi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portiko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "eyvân",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "ایوان"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "setâvand",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "ستاوند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portyk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pórtico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pórtik",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "по́ртик"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "piṇḍa",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "पिण्ड"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portik"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pórtico"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "portik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "revak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building",
      "word": "sundurma"
    }
  ],
  "word": "portico"
}

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