Etymology
1. c.1374, from O.Fr.
transporter "carry or convey across" (14c.), from L.
transportare, from
trans- "across" +
portare "to carry" (see port (1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded 1509. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1666. The noun is attested from 1456, originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1694.
Transportation "act of transporting" is recorded from 1540. In the sense of "means of conveyance" it is first recorded 1853.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
6. Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
7. Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
8. Proto-Italic *trāns
9. Proto-Italic *trāns-
10. Latin trāns-
11. Proto-Indo-European *per-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-téh₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
14. Proto-Italic *portā
15. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
16. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
17. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
18. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
19. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
20. Proto-Italic *-ājō
21. Proto-Italic *-āō
22. Proto-Italic *portāō
23. Latin portō
24. Latin trānsportāreder.
25. Old French transporterbor.
26. Middle English transporten
27. English transport
28. Inherited from Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportāre (“to carry over, take across, carry, convey, remove, transport”), from trāns- (“across, over, to the farther side of”) + portō (“to bear, carry, convey, take”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”). See: Old French '
transporter', Latin '
trānsportō'.
Verbs referencing "transport"
Esperanto
transporti.