porch
English
/pɔːtʃ/, /pɔɹtʃ/, /po(ː)ɹtʃ/, /poətʃ/
noun
Definitions
- (architecture) A covered and enclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English porche derived from Latin porticus (portico).
Origin
Latin
porticus
Gloss
portico
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- light English
- porched English
- porchless English
- porchlessness English
- porchlight English
- porchlike English
- porchway English
- sun English
- sunporch English
- way English
- cryptoporticus Latin
- porta Latin
- porticus Latin
- portico Italian
- portique French
- портик Russian
- pórtico Spanish, Castilian
- pórtico Portuguese
- ポーチ Japanese
- portyk Polish
- porche Middle English
- porche Old French
- porxe Catalan, Valencian
- porxo Catalan, Valencian
- pòrtic Catalan, Valencian
- 포치 Korean
- porche xno
- Portsch Pennsylvania German