portal

/poɾˈtal/ · B1 · adj

porch

🚪 portal = puerta + -al: the door part of a house, its entrance or porch

From Latin porta, door, the same root as Spanish puerta and English port. In Spanish, un portal is the street entrance or hallway of a building, and el portal de Belén is the nativity stable. Online, it is a web portal, as in English.

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