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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [trãːˈspɔr.toː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [tranˈspɔr.to]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''trānsportō''' (present infinitive trānsportāre, perfect active trānsportāvī, supine trānsportātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|trans-|porto|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Caesar uses it of shipping armies and of crossing the Rhine, and Cicero of carrying an army to Macedonia.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Caesar c. 50 BC and Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to carry or convey across, usually by water, and with two accusatives to carry troops across a river.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It was also used of sending people into exile, as Suetonius says Augustus did with Agrippa, and of moving whole peoples.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ English ''transport'' is recorded in the late 14th century, through Old French ''transporter''.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of shipping an army.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of an army carried to Macedonia.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 75–c. 150 AD – Suetonius uses it of sending into exile.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * late 14th century – English ''transport'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To carry across, [[m|en|transport]], ship across.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # To [[m|en|deport]], send into exile.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[transportātiō]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[porto|alt=portō]]
+ * [[en|transport]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}