exporto

Pronunciation

• IPA (Classical): [ɛkˈspɔr.toː]^[1]
• IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ekˈspɔr.to]^[1]

Forms

exportō (present infinitive exportāre, perfect active exportāvī, supine exportātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from ex- “out” and portō “to carry”.^[2][1][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Lewis and Short's earliest example is from Varro, of Jupiter carrying Europa from Phoenicia.^[5] Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^[6]

Semantic evolution

It meant to carry out, take away, especially to send overseas, as Cicero's statue carried out of a town and gold sent yearly from Italy to Jerusalem.^[2][5][7] In Cicero it also meant to send to market, export.^[2]

It was borrowed into French as exporter and Spanish exportar, and English export is recorded by the 1610s, “to carry out of a place”.^[1][4]

Timeline

• 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of carrying away.^[5][6]
• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of exporting gold.^[5][7][6]
• 1610s – English export is recorded.^[4]

Meanings

Verb

1. To carry out, take away; to send overseas.^[2]
2. To send to market, export.^[2]

Word family

• exportātiō

Related words

• portō
• importō
• English export

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
5. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.