port-, portat-

(Latin: carry, bring, bear)

Don't confuse this port-, portat with another port- meaning "door, gate, entrance," or "harbor".


portability
Easily carried or moved.
portable
1. Capable of being carried by hand or on the person; capable of being moved from place to place; easily carried or conveyed.
2. Also used to distinguish mechanical devices or electrical apparatus manufactured in forms smaller and lighter than normal, to enable them to be easily carried about.
portableness
portage
1. The action or work of carrying or transporting.
2. To carry or transport (boats, goods, etc.) over land between navigable waters.
portamento
In music, a smooth constant glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or with a bowed-stringed instrument.
porter
A person whose employment is to carry burdens; now especially a servant of a railway company, or airport, employed to carry luggage at a station or airport.
portfolio
1. A receptacle or case for keeping loose sheets of paper, prints, drawings, maps, music, or the like; usually in the form of a large book-cover, and sometimes having sheets of paper fixed in it, between which specimens are placed.
2. Such a receptacle containing the official documents of a state department; hence, the office of a minister of state. Originally said in reference to France and other foreign countries.
3. Also in the phrase, “without portfolio”, (of a government minister), not being in charge of a specific department of state; for example, “Minister without Portfolio”.
portly
portmanteau
1. A case or bag for carrying clothing and other necessaries when traveling; originally of a form suitable for carrying on horseback; now applied to an oblong stiff leather case, which opens like a book, with hinges in the middle of the back.
2. In the sense of that into which things are packed together; originally applied by Lewis Carroll to a fictitious word made up of the blended sounds of two distinct words and combining the meanings of both; hence used by extension to things that are or suggest a combination of two different things of the same kind.

Examples of Portmanteau words.

port-monnaie
purport
1. To have or present the appearance, often false, of being or intending something; as “a reporter who purports to be objective”.
2. To have the intention of doing something.
rapport
Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity.
report
A presentation or an account of something, often officially, formally, or periodically. [re-, "back" + portare, "to carry"].
reporter
One who reports or relates; a recounter or narrator.
reportorial

Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring": duc-; -fer; ger-; later-, -lation; phoro-.


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