Translation
to transport, to carry, to convey
Word origin
From Latin transportare, made of trans, across, and portare, to carry. Esperanto happens to own both halves as living words, so a learner who knows trans and porti can read the borrowing as though it were a home-made compound.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- trans + portare
- English cognates
- transport, portable, export
Examples
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The ship transports goods to the island.
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We have to move the furniture to the new house.
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A train carries more people than a car.
This is a borrowing that behaves like a build. is an everyday Esperanto preposition and an everyday verb, so decodes on sight as carrying something across a distance, and transporto is the activity. Keep it for goods and cargo and for the deliberate moving of things: people who simply go somewhere or rather than being transported. The -- suffix gives o, a means of transport, which is the neat one-word answer to "how did you get here".
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