Where does “porta-aviões” come from?

porta-aviões (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese porta, from Old Portuguese porta, from Latin porta, from Proto-Indo-European per-, from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós — passed , crossed.

porta-aviões (Portuguese): aircraft carrier

Definitions

  1. aircraft carrier

Ancestry of “porta-aviões”, step by step

porta-aviões traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Portuguese porta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseportadoor; entrance; gateway
2Old Portugueseporta—
3Latinportagate, especially of a city; entrance, passage,...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
5Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed

via Portuguese avião

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portugueseaviãoairplane; Obsolete spelling of haviam
2Frenchavionaeroplane
3Latinavisa bird; omen, portent; dative/ablative plural of...
4EnglishavifaunaThe birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting...
5Latinfaunaanimals
Every word from Proto-Indo-European pr̥tós →Every word from Proto-Indo-European per- →Every word from Latin porta →