portico
/ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/US/ˈpɔɹtɪkoʊ/
portico noun: a porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
Noun
portico (plural porticos or porticoes or portici)
- A porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
- The amphitheatre hath two portici as that at Niſmes.1732, [Awnsham Churchill; John Churchill], A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, Others Now First Published in English. […], volume VI, London: […]...
- The great house itself was a large, white, wooden building, with wings on three sides of it. In front, a large portico, extending the entire length of the building, and supported by a long range of columns, gave to the whole establishment an air of solemn grandeur.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
Proper noun capitalized: Portico
the Portico
- The Stoic philosophy (after the public porch on the agora of Athens where Zeno taught).
- Synonyms:
- Porch
portico meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
portico in Hindi
- small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building
- द्वारमण्डप dvārmaṇḍap
portico in Tamil
- மூடு முகப்பு, மூடு முன்றில், நிரைமுன்றில், தலைவாயில், தாழ்வாரம், புழுதி
portico in Urdu
- رواق
portico in Bengali
- small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building
- রোয়াক rōẇak
More languagesFewer languages
- portico in Telugu
- చావడి cāvaḍi
- portico in Kannada
- ಮುಖಮಂಟಪ, ಮೊಗಸಾಲೆ, ಸಮಾನಾಂತರ ಕಂಬಗಳನ್ನಾಧರಿಸಿ ಕಟ್ಟಿದ ಮಾಳಿಗೆ
- portico in Sanskrit
- पिण्ड piṇḍa
- portico in Indonesian
- portik
- portico in Persian
- ایوان eyvân, ستاوند setâvand
Examples of portico in a sentence
- The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:
- […] Porticus Milliaria (portico of the thousand paces) which was the longest, if not the most attractive, of the many portici of ancient Rome.1971, Carlo Galassi Paluzzi, Roman Churches, Italian State Tourist Office, page 44, column 1:
Synonyms of portico
Forms of portico
| plural | porticos |
|---|---|
| plural | porticoes |
| plural | portici |
Origin of portico
From Italian portico, from Latin porticus (“porch”), from porta (“gate”). Doublet of porch, portego, and porticus.
Words formed from portico
Questions about portico
- What does portico mean?
- Portico means a porch, or a small space with a roof supported by columns, serving as the entrance to a building.
- What is portico in Hindi?
- Portico in Hindi is द्वारमण्डप (dvārmaṇḍap). See Portico meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use portico in a sentence?
- The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.
- What part of speech is portico?
- Portico can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce portico?
- Portico is pronounced /ˈpɔːtɪkəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of portico?
- The plural of portico is porticos.
Words near portico in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: portico (page history and authors); Portico (page history and authors); portico (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); portico (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చావడి (Telugu) (page history and authors); portico (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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