portar.
to bear, to carry
Meaning & usage
to bear, to carry
Portaba una maleta.
Portaba armas.
to wear (clothes)
Aunque se había mudado a la Ciudad de Guatemala desde su pueblo indígena, ella sigue portando su vestimenta tradicional.
to behave, to be good
Pórtate bien en la escuela.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Spanish portar, a foreign word borrowed in various times from Latin portāre (“bring, carry”) and from cognates in Romance languages such as Catalan portar, French porter, Italian portare; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“go, traverse”).
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