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Porto is pronounced 'po'rto'
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Uncertain1

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Porto Baggins

Posco Baggins’ second son

The second child of Posco Baggins and Gilly Brownlock. He was only very distantly related to Bilbo or Frodo Baggins (the most recent ancestor he shared with either of them was his great-great-grandfather Balbo Baggins). Nevertheless, he was among the 'One Gross' invited to the famous Birthday Party during which Bilbo disappeared. He was born in the middle of the fourteenth century, according to the Shire Calendar, which would have made him fifty-three at the time of the Party.


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There are various potential roots behind the name Porto (as for example, 'door' or 'gate', 'harbour' or 'port'). It could also mean 'carriage' or 'bearing', from which we derive the modern word 'portly', which might seem to be a suitable origin for a Hobbit-name. In context, however, it seems doubtful that the name was intended to carry a modern meaning. Porto Baggins came from a long line of Hobbits dating back to his great-grandfather Ponto who all had names fitting the pattern 'Po...o' (Ponto, Polo, Posco and another Ponto, who was Porto's elder brother) and it seems that Porto's name simply continued this trend among his branch of the Baggins family.

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