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Webster 1913 Edition


Portal

Por′tal

,
Noun.
[OF.
portal
, F.
portail
, LL.
portale
, fr. L.
porta
a gate. See
Port
a gate.]
1.
A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
Thick with sparkling orient gems
The
portal
shone.
Milton.
From out the fiery
portal
of the east.
Shakespeare
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(b)
Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(c)
By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
3.
(Bridge Building)
The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
4.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
[Obs.]
Portal bracing
(Bridge Building)
,
a combination of struts and ties which lie in the plane of the inclined braces at a portal, serving to transfer wind pressure from the upper parts of the trusses to an abutment or pier of the bridge.

Por′tal

,
Adj.
(Anat.)
Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver;
as, the
portal
vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery
.
Portal
is applied to other veins which break up into capillaries;
as, the renal
portal
veins in the frog
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Portal

PORTAL

,
Noun.
In architecture, a little gate, where there are two gates of different dimensions.
1.
A little square corner of a room, separated from the rest by a wainscot, and forming a short passage into a room.
2.
A kind of arch of joiner's work before a door.
3.
A gate; an opening for entrance; as the portals of heaven.

Definition 2024


portál

portál

See also: portal and Portal

Czech

Noun

portál m

  1. portal (grandiose and often lavish entrance)

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Portal, from Medieval Latin portale, from Latin porta. [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈportaːl]
  • Hyphenation: por‧tál

Noun

portál (plural portálok)

  1. shop-front
  2. portal (a grandiose and often lavish entrance)
  3. (Internet) portal (a website that acts as an entrance to other websites on the Internet)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative portál portálok
accusative portált portálokat
dative portálnak portáloknak
instrumental portállal portálokkal
causal-final portálért portálokért
translative portállá portálokká
terminative portálig portálokig
essive-formal portálként portálokként
essive-modal
inessive portálban portálokban
superessive portálon portálokon
adessive portálnál portáloknál
illative portálba portálokba
sublative portálra portálokra
allative portálhoz portálokhoz
elative portálból portálokból
delative portálról portálokról
ablative portáltól portáloktól
Possessive forms of portál
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. portálom portáljaim
2nd person sing. portálod portáljaid
3rd person sing. portálja portáljai
1st person plural portálunk portáljaink
2nd person plural portálotok portáljaitok
3rd person plural portáljuk portáljaik

References

  1. Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2