Transport etymology

English

English word transport comes from Latin portare, Latin trans (Across, beyond.), Latin trans-

Etymology of transport

Detailed word origin of transport

Dictionary entry Language Definition
portare Latin (lat)
trans Latin (lat) Across, beyond.
trans- Latin (lat)
transportare Latin (lat)
transporter Old French (842-ca. 1400) (fro) To transport.
transporten Middle English (1100-1500) (enm)
transport English (en) (Canada) A tractor-trailer.. (historical) A deported convict.. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.). An act of transporting; conveyance.. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular [...]

Words with the same origin as transport

Descendants of portare

port porter purchase

Descendants of trans

tradition traditional travis