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Port

2 stages from Portuguese to English.

Today it means a strong, sweet fortified wine, traditionally from Portugal
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Porto
Portuguese · medieval
"a Portuguese city name"
the coastal city from which the fortified wine was traditionally shipped
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port
English · 1690s
"a fortified sweet wine"
shortened and settled as the English word for the fortified sweet wine
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