PORTION Copy link • PORTION 1. s. pars (a part): dos (o dowry): ☞ in classical Latin portio occurs only in the phrase pro portione. Vid: PART. 2. v. To parcel out, distribuere, dividere aliquid aliquibus or in aliquos; dispertire; diribere; dispensare. To endow, (filiae) dotem dare (Nep., filiam) dotare (Suet.); filio dare, praebere, unde domum, rem domesticam instituere possit: portioned, dotatus (Ov.); cum ipse filiae nubili dotem conficere non posset (Cic., Quint., 31, 98; could not portion his daughter).