
English word port comes from Latin porta, and later Latin porto (I carry, bear. I convey, bring.)
porta (Latin)
(figuratively) way, means. Entrance, passage, door. Gate, especially of a city.
porto (Latin)
I carry, bear. I convey, bring.
porter (Old French)
To carry. To carry a child (to be pregnant).
port (English)
(archaic) The manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage. See also portance.. (computing) A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.. (computing, BSD) A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an [...]