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