porte cochère

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌpɔːt kə(ʊ)ˈʃɛə/
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• General-American: /ˌpɔɹt koʊˈʃɛɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
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Unadapted borrowing from French porte cochère (literally “coach gateway”): porte (“door; gateway”) (ultimately from Latin porta (“door; entrance; gate; passage”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to go through; to carry forth, fare”)) + cochère (from coche (“stagecoach”) + -ière (feminine form of -ier (suffix forming the names of occupations, etc.)). Coche is ultimately from Hungarian kocsi (“cart; horse carriage”), from Kocs, a village in Hungary known for making carriages.

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: porta cotxera — gateway through which horse carriages pass
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬車門廊 /马车门廊 (mǎchēménláng) — gateway through which horse carriages pass
• French: porte cochère — gateway through which horse carriages pass
• Chinese Mandarin: 車寄 /车寄 (chējì) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Chinese Mandarin: 馬車門廊 /马车门廊 (mǎchēménláng) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Chinese Mandarin: 迎賓車廊 /迎宾车廊 (yíngbīnchēláng) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Finnish: sisäänkäyntikatos — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• French: porte cochère — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Ido: vetur-pordo — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Japanese: 車寄せ (kurumayose) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Mon: ယာန်မုက်ရၚ် (yānmukraṅ) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Russian: въездная а́рка (vʺjezdnaja árka) — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Sicilian: purtuni — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather
• Spanish: puerta cochera — porch, or roof without walls over a driveway, next to the entrance of a building in or under which a vehicle can stop to allow passengers to embark or disembark without being affected by bad weather