port-, portat-
(Latin: carry, bring, bear)
Don't confuse this port-, portat with another port- meaning "door, gate, entrance," or "harbor".
apport
The production of material objects, supposedly by occult means, at a spiritualistic séance; also, an object so produced. Usually in the plural.
Previously, it meant: bearing, carriage, demeanor (now obsolete); or a reference to things brought; offerings; revenues; aids (now obsolete).
In its verb form, apport means to bring, to produce; to arrive at.
apportable
Capable of being brought forward, or produced.
asport
To carry away, to remove feloniously.
asportation
The action of carrying off; in Law, the felonious removal of property.
colportage
The work of a colporteur; specifically, the distribution of religious books and tracts by colporteurs.
colporteur
A hawker of books, newspapers, etc. especially (in English use) one employed by a society to travel about and sell or distribute Bibles and religious writings.
comport
Literally, “to carry together”; to conduct or behave oneself in a given way; such as, “to comport oneself with tact”. To act in a particular manner; to behave; to bear, to endure; to tolerate. Also seen as: comportable, comportableness, and comportance.
comportable
comportment
Personal bearing, demeanor, deportment; behavior, outward conduct, course of action. Formerly also in the plural form, proceedings, conduct.
deport
1. To expel from a country; especially, to remove into exile, to banish.
2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a specified manner. [Latin: de-, away + portare, to carry].
deportable
Subject to or punishable by deportation.
deportation
1. The forcible expulsion of a foreign national from a country.
2. The banishment or expulsion of someone from his or her own country.
deportee
A deported individual.
deportment
Manner of conducting oneself; conduct (of life); behavior; demeanor.
disport, disporting, disported
1. To divert or to amuse (oneself); diversion; play.
2. Etymology: from Old French desporter, "to divert"; from des-, "apart"; which came from Latin dis-, "apart, away" + porter, "to carry" (from Latin portare); so, "to disport" is "to carry apart", or "away".
Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring":
duc-;
-fer;
ger-;
later-, -lation;
phoro-.
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