English word transport comes from Latin portare, Latin trans (Across, beyond.), Latin trans-
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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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 [...] |