Portico

Definition: Portico

Portico

Noun

1. A porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area.

Date "portico" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Portico \Por"ti*co\, noun; plural Porticoesor Porticos. [Italian expression, from Latin expression porticus. See Porch.]. (Websters 1913)

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Portico

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PORTICO	English	Portuguese road traffic innovations,consisting of the surveillance of vehicles transporting dangerous goods and accident detection and warning systems	Transportation
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Portico

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Beginning	Entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule; propylaeum; skirts, border; (edge).
Receptacle	Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Portico

English words defined with "portico": Antetemple ♦ Decastyle, Distyle, Dodecastyle ♦ Hexastyle ♦ In antis ♦ narthex ♦ Octostyle ♦ parvis, Pentastyle, Porticoes, Porticos, prostyle, pseudoprostyle ♦ Systyle ♦ Tetrastyle, The Porch ♦ Xystus ♦ Zayat. (references)

Specialty definitions using "portico": Flogged by Deputy ♦ Justice. (references)

Etymologies containing "portico": Oriel ♦ Porch. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Portico" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (arcade, gallery, portico).

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Commercial Usage: Portico

Domain	Title
Books	Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580 : the portico and the farmyard : catalogue (reference) Aphrodisias Papers 3. the Setting & Quarries, Mythological & Other Sculptural Decoration, Architectural Development, Portico of Tiberius & Tetrapylon) (reference) Business Case Studies: Portico S.A., Costa Rica (reference) The portico of the mystery of the second virtue (reference) Under the Portico (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Portico (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Portico

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Photo Album: Portico

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	E. J. Parkin observing levels at White House, South Portico Level party of Howard Rappleye. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Southwest elevation. Measured drawing delineated by Ken Breuer, 1974. (Reproduction Number: HABS SC-377, sheet 7/14 of 15; negative number LC-USZA1-1334). Begun in 1738 for John Drayton, a prominent official and businessman in colonial South Carolina, Drayton Hall is one of the finest and best-preserved Georgian Palladian houses in the nation. Known for its symmetrical design, two-story portico (porch), and exquisite interior decorative wood and plasterwork, the house was the only plantation house on the west bank of the Ashley River not to be burned during the Civil War. Still without running water, central heat, or electricity, Drayton Hall is now a National Trust historic site. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Front (east) portico. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1959. (Reproduction Number: HABS, VT, 14-WOOD,1-4) Job Lyman, a young lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts, finished this house in the village of Woodstock in 1810. He and his bride, Mary Hall, lived in it for many years while Job practiced law in town. The finely carved Neoclassical detailing on the entrance porch suggests Lyman's refined taste and the prosperity of Woodstock at the time of construction. Decorated with fluted Ionic columns and scrolled ornament, the porch also features steps made of granite from a nearby quarry. Credit: Library of Congress.		Unidentified building. Cupola and dome above pedimented portico. Compositional studies. Partial sketch elevations. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Architectural drawing for a monument with obelisk on top of doric portico. Front elevation. Credit: Library of Congress.		Theater of Opera and Ballet (1931-45; 1956), main portico, Novosibirsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
	United States Capitol, lady by chair, and house with portico. Credit: Library of Congress.		Group of proposed Trilby statuary for portico of executive mansion. Credit: Library of Congress.
	President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivering his inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, January 21, 1957. Credit: Library of Congress.		Chief Justice Edward D. White administering the oath of office to Woodrow Wilson on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1913. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Portico

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. K K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called Klatch, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, circa 730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional mnemonic, or if the name was always Klatch and the destruction one of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on that side of the question.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Portico

"Portico" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.19% of the time. "Portico" is used about 155 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.19%	146	26,107
Noun (proper)	5.81%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	155	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Portico

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "portico": portico-affair, portico-front.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Portico

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
portico	158	mohawk portico	3
furniture portico	19	cherry creek portico	3
portico design	16	house portico white	3
movado portico	15	portico store	3
home portico	9	gruas portico	3
building a portico	9	portico plan	3
carpet portico	7	by mohawk portico	3
il portico	7	portico s.a	3
portico verbena	6	carpet mohawk portico	2
bath bed portico	5	portico architecture	2
design plan portico	4	mortgage portico	2
new portico york	4	old portico time	2
build a portico	4	edmonton il portico	2
greek portico	4	portico tile	2
magazine portico	4	porch portico	2
group portico	3
		porch portico	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Portico

Language		Translations for "portico"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		portik. (various references)

Arabic		‏رواق بأعمدة. (various references)

Bulgarian		галерия с колони, портал (doorway, porch, portal), портик (porch). (various references)

Czech		portikus, sloupoví. (various references)

Dutch		zuilengang (porch). (various references)

Esperanto		arkadaro. (various references)

Farsi		سرسرا (Gallery, Hall), ایوان (Balcony, Cloister, Patio, Porch, Portal), رواق (Porch). (various references)

Finnish		pylväistö (colonnade), pylväikkö (colonnade). (various references)

French		portique (porch). (various references)

German		säulengang (arcade, colonnade, peristyle). (various references)

Greek		στοά (arcade, gallery, loggia, stoa). (various references)

Hebrew		אכס�"ר�" (corridor, patio, porch, terrace), ב� ין עמו�"ים. (various references)

Hungarian		csarnok (coliseum, covered market, hall, market-hall). (various references)

Italian		portico (arcade, gallery), porticato (arcade, colonnade). (various references)

Pig Latin		orticopay

Portuguese		vão (abortive, aperture, baubling, bay, empty, fruit-peel, futile, futility, Interspace, needless, nugatory, span, unavailing, useless, vain). (various references)

Romanian		portic (porch). (various references)

Russian		портик (porch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stepenište (flight, flight of stairs, pair of stairs, staircase, stairway). (various references)

Spanish		pórtico (gateway, Piazza, porch, stoop). (various references)

Swedish		portik. (various references)

Turkish		sütunlu giriş, kemeraltı (arcade, archway, colonnade, gallery, loggia). (various references)

Ukrainian		портик (porch, walk). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Portico

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	stoa. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	porticus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Portico

Derivations
	Words beginning with "portico": porticoes, porticos. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Portico" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cortico, Orbicom, ortic, partic, partici, particu, perico, Pericom, Petrascu, petrocon, Pistacor, pontic, ponticum, portaloo, Portaskog, porteco, porteno, portic, Porticada, porticoe, portio, Portis, Portisch, Portoroz, potice, potico, Protasov, protic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Portico"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "portico" (pronounced pô"rtukō')
3	-u k ō'	calico.
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Anagrams: Portico

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-o-o-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: octopi, octroi, tropic.
	-2 letters: coopt, optic, picot, poori, topic, topoi, toric, troop.
	-3 letters: coir, coop, coot, crop, otic, poco, poor, port, riot, root, roti, roto, tiro, topi, torc, tori, toro, trio, trip, trop.
	-4 letters: coo, cop, cor, cot, oot, opt, orc, ort, pic, pit, poi, pot, pro, rip, roc, rot, tic, tip, too, top.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-o-o-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: porticos, protonic.
	+2 letters: coprolite, geotropic, inotropic, isotropic, orthoepic, porticoes.
	+3 letters: allotropic, apotropaic, colorpoint, compatriot, competitor, comporting, compositor, coprolites, coprolitic, corporeity, corruption, doctorship, lipotropic, neotropics, optometric, orthopedic, petrologic, picrotoxin, proctorial, proctoring, production, prognostic, projection, prosciutto, protection, prototypic, tropologic, xenotropic.
	+4 letters: anisotropic, aponeurotic, apostrophic, autotrophic, auxotrophic, blastoporic, chiropodist, colorpoints, compatriots, competitors, compositors, conspirator, contraption, cooperating, cooperation, cooperative, corporality, corporation, corporatism, corporatist, corporative, corruptions, cryptococci, cryptologic, doctorships, ectomorphic, ectotrophic, endotrophic, geostrophic, heliotropic, heterotopic, hydrotropic, incorporate, luteotropic, mesotrophic, mucoprotein, nephrotoxic, neurotropic, nonoperatic, nontropical, orthopaedic, orthopedics, orthoscopic, outcropping, percolation, photocopier, photometric, phototropic, picrotoxins, pleiotropic, postdivorce, procreation, proctologic, proctorship, procuration, productions, prognostics, projections, prokaryotic, prosciuttos, prosecution, protections, proteolytic, prothoracic, protocoling, protopathic, protostelic, protraction, provocation, provocative, retinoscopy, sporophytic, thixotropic, thyrotropic, tomographic, topocentric, topographic.
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