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poartă
gate /ˈpo̯ar.tə/
noun#1518 most common
Also: goal (in football/soccer), door (of a house or yard), entrance
Example sentences
Aceasta este o poartă veche.
This is an old gate.
Poarta casei este din lemn.
The house's gate is made of wood.
Am închis poarta după ce am plecat.
I closed the gate after I left.
Portarul stă lângă poarta echipei.
The goalkeeper stands near the team's goal.
Fotbalistul a marcat direct din lovitura de la poartă.
The footballer scored directly from the goal kick.
Porțile orașului medieval erau păzite zi și noapte.
The gates of the medieval city were guarded day and night.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | poartă | porți |
| Genitive | porții | porților |
| Accusative | poartă | porți |
| Vocative | poartă | porți |
Word family
portargoalkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper
portițăsmall gate; figuratively, a loophole
a purtato carry, to wear, to bear
portalportal, grand entrance (later borrowing)
porți maramureșenetraditional carved wooden gates of Maramureș
Etymology
Romanian "poartă" comes directly from Latin "porta," meaning gate or entrance, inherited from the Vulgar Latin spoken in the region rather than borrowed later. Latin "porta" traces back to the PIE root *per-, meaning to lead or pass over. That same root underlies English words like "port" and "portal." The word has kept its core sense of a passage or entry point for roughly two thousand years.
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