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English word port comes from Latin porta, and later Latin porto (I carry, bear. I convey, bring.)

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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 [...]

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