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port

/pɔʁ/

noun, masculine/pɔʁ/plural: ports

port, harbour; port, harbour city; refuge; transport; postage

[…]la mère Rolet réclama le port d'une vingtaine de lettres; et, comme Charles demandait des explications, elle eut la délicatesse de répondre: […].

Inherited from Old French port, borrowed from Latin portus, from Proto-Italic *portus, from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to go forth, to cross”).

noun, masculine/pɔʁ/plural: ports

wearing (act of wearing something); carrying (of an object)

Deverbal of porter. Ultimately from the same source as etymology 1 above.