porch English · revision 15437

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1290|origins=la porta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pɔːtʃ/ ''(UK)''; /pɔɹt͡ʃ/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|porche]], [[bor|fro|porche|t=porch, vestibule]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from [[la|porticus|t=colonnade, covered walk, porch]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|porta|t=gate, entrance]] (see [[port]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[ine-pro|*per-|t=to lead, pass over]].^(Etymonline) It is a doublet of [[portico]].^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A covered entrance to a building: about 1290 in the OED, about 1300 in Barnhart and Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Latin word had been borrowed directly into Old English as [[m|ang|portic]].^(Etymonline) A colonnade or portico is from about 1420,^(OED 1989) and the Porch, the Painted Stoa of Athens, stands for the Stoic school from the 17th century.^(Hoad 1986)^(OED 1989) In the north of England a transept or side chapel was called a porch from 1522.^(OED 1989) In the United States it has been used by 1832 for what the British call a veranda.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1290 – a covered entrance.^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1420 – a colonnade.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1522 – a side chapel (north of England).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1832 – a veranda (US).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A covered shelter projecting from the entrance of a building.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(US, Canada)'' A [[veranda]], open or partly enclosed.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[porchless]]

+ * [[porchlike]]

+ * [[sunporch]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[portico]]

+ * [[port]]

+ * [[portal]]

+ * [[porter]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In West Yorkshire mining, a porch was the arch at the bottom of a colliery shaft;^(Wright 1898)^(OED 1989) in Hertfordshire dialect, to porch meant to roam or ramble.^(Wright 1898)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}