export
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛks.pɔːt/, /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/[1]
Etymology
It is borrowed from Latin exportāre (“to carry out, send away”),[2][3][4] from ex- (“out”) and portāre (“to carry”) (see port),[2][3] from PIE Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”).[3]
Earliest recorded meaning
To carry out or away: about 1485, in the Digby Plays,[2][5] a sense now obsolete.[6]
Semantic evolution
To send goods out of one country to another for sale is first recorded in 1665.[2][5][3] The noun, an exported article, is from 1690,[2][5] and the action of exporting from 1804.[5] Exporter is from 1691, in Locke.[2] Figurative uses, as exporting ideas, are from 1760,[5] and in computing, to send data out of a program for use elsewhere, from 1982.[5]
Timeline
- c. 1485 – to carry away.[2][5]
- 1665 – to send goods abroad.[2][5]
- 1690 – an exported article.[2][5]
- 1982 – in computing.[5]
Modern meaning
Verb
- To send goods or services to another country for sale.
- To spread or introduce ideas or customs abroad.
- (computing) To transfer data to another program or format.
Noun
- Something exported; a commodity sold abroad.
- The act of exporting.
Word family
- exportability
- exportable
- exporter
- reexport
- unexported
- exportation
Related words
References
- ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Barnhart, Robert K. (1988), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology
- ^ a b c d Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
- ^ Hoad, T. F., ed. (1986), The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Simpson, J. A.; Weiner, E. S. C., eds. (1989), The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (2002), 5th ed., ed. William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, Oxford: Oxford University Press