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| import || ''portÄre'' || inward trade || || See [[Import (meaning)]]. | | import || ''portÄre'' || inward trade || || See [[Import (meaning)]]. | ||
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| + | | port (''[[adjective|adj.]]'') || ''portus'' OR ''porta'' || haven, harbour || || See [[port - starboard]] || | ||
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| + | | port (''[[verb|vb.]]'') || ''portÄre'' || to carry (obs.) || || Used for military drill - to '''port armns''' is to hold rifle slantwise in front of body || | ||
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| + | | portable || ''portÄre'' || || || || | ||
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Revision as of 02:24, 22 September 2009
Several English words include the element -port-, even discounting such elements as portion, which comes from ptÅ ratiÅne, 'in the ratio'. Most come from originals with the four letters -port- as a unit.. These can confuse non-native learners at times, and their history may be interesting to native speakers; so some notes are given here. They come in essence from three Latin roots, two linked.
- PortÄre means 'to carry, bring' (cf French porter), and is the most productive root. (In Latin, the irregular verb fero, ferre, tuli, latum was more often used for this meaning, and there are cognates in many languages: Greek φÎÏω (also an irregular verb - phero, ’οίσω, ’ηνεγκα), root of the name Christopher, derived from the legend of a man who carried the Christ-child on his shoulder - Christo-phoros, 'Christ-bearing'); and Sanskrit vhri.
| word | derivation (Latin unless stated) | meaning | meaning explained | Notes | |||
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| colporteur | porter (French) | itinerant vendor of papers or books (esp. Bibles) | col = 'neck' | ||||
| comport (vb | portÄre | to bear oneself | cum, 'with' is often reflexive | The noun is obsolete | |||
| comportment (n | portÄre | behaviour, bearing | |||||
| deport (vb (1) | portÄre | to send [a person] abroad; to banish | de- as 'off' or 'away' | ||||
| deportment | portÄre | behavious, bearing | Mostly with regard to physical stance | ||||
| deport (vb (2) | portÄre | to bear oneself, behave | Obsolete. Comport is better as a verb | ||||
| disport | portÄre | ||||||
| export | portÄre | [to] trade abroad | See Import (meaning). | ||||
| fireport | porta | opening to shoot through | |||||
| gunport | porta | Opening to shoot through | |||||
| import | portÄre | inward trade | See Import (meaning). | ||||
| port (n. | portus | ||||||
| port (adj.) | portus OR porta | haven, harbour | See port - starboard | ||||
| port (vb.) | portÄre | to carry (obs.) | Used for military drill - to port armns is to hold rifle slantwise in front of body | ||||
| portable | portÄre | purport | |||||
| rapport | portÄre | ||||||
| report | portÄre | ||||||
| sport | |||||||
| support |
- Porta means a 'door, gate[way]', French la porte. This gives us such simple words as 'portal' and 'portico' (and its more 'native' form 'porch'), 'portal'. It shares its derivation (por) with the following:
- portus, a 'harbour, haven or port', is derived from an older root por or par, meaning 'to pierce': the basic meaning of each is 'entry'.
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