Port

Morpheme

Port

Type

bound base

Denotation

carry

Etymology

Latin portāre

Evidence

comport, deport, deportation, disport, disported, disporting, disportment, disports, export, exportation, exported, exporting, exports, import, important, importation, imported, importing, imports, portability, portable, porter, portfolio, portly, purport, report, support, supportive, transport, transportation, unimportant, unimported

Notes

some semantic overlap with (<Port>) from Latin porta and Latin portus

Modern Base Analysis

deport, disport, and sport are doublets

See Also

Sport, Rapport, Porta

Homographs

Port, Port