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portas

portas is the obsolete form of portass.

Meaning of portass

Noun

portass (plural portasses)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book.
    • an old Priest in that age, which always read in his Portass, Mumpsimus Domine for Sumpsimus; whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now had used Mumpsimus thirty years, and would not leave his old Mumpsimus for their new Sumpsimus.1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Portas

Portas

  1. (plural) plural of Porta

Forms of portas

pluralportases

Questions about portas

What is portas the obsolete form of?
Portas is the obsolete form of portass.
What part of speech is portas?
Portas is a proper noun.

Words near portas in the dictionary

  1. portapak
  2. portapaks
  3. portapotties
  4. portapotty
  5. Portarlington
  6. portas
  7. portases
  8. portass
  9. portasses
  10. portastudio
  11. portastudios

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portas (page history and authors); Portas (page history and authors); portass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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