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"transport" in seven languages

Meaningtransport

Spanish

transporte

/tɾansˈpoɾte/

masc.learned

French

transport

/tʁɑ̃spɔʁ/

masc.learned

Italian

trasporto

/trasˈpɔrto/

masc.learned

Portuguese

transporte

/tɾɐ̃sˈpɔhtʃi/

masc.learned

Romanian

transport

/transˈport/

neut.borrowed · French transport

Catalan

transport

/tɾənsˈpɔɾt/

masc.learned

English

transport

/ˈtɹænspɔɹt/

from Latin/French · French transport, from Latin

English → ItaliantransporttrasportoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

TRĀNSPORTĀRE‘to carry across’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

TRĀNS 'across' + PORTĀRE 'to carry'. Italian usually trims trans- to tras- (trasporto); public transport is plural in French and Italian.

English relatives: transportation, port, portable, import

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In a sentence

  • esAquí el transporte público es gratis.
  • frIci, les transports en commun sont gratuits.
  • itQui i trasporti pubblici sono gratuiti.
  • ptAqui o transporte público é gratuito.
  • roAici transportul public este gratuit.
  • caAquí el transport públic és gratuït.
  • enPublic transport is free here.

The Latin family

PORT-· carry

PORTĀRE is the ordinary 'carry' of French (porter) and Italian (portare); Spanish prefers llevar (LEVĀRE 'to lift') and keeps portar for 'to bear' and portarse 'to behave'. Its prefixed forms travelled widely as learned words — and one of them, via Old French, became English sport. Romanian purta and Catalan portar are everyday 'carry' verbs; Portuguese, like Spanish, carries with levar.

  • PORTĀREto carry

    esportarfrporteritportareptportarropurtacaportar

  • IMPORTĀREto carry in

    esimportarfrimporteritimportareptimportarroimportacaimportarenimport

  • SUPPORTĀREto carry up, bear

    essoportarfrsupporteritsopportareptsuportarrosuportacasuportarensupport

  • TRANSPORTĀREto carry across

    estransportarfrtransporterittrasportarepttransportarrotransportacatransportarentransport

  • DĒPORTĀREto carry away

    esdeportefrdéporteritdiportoptesporterosportcaesport

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