Where does “airport” come from?
Airport derives from English air combined with English port, which comes from Latin porta meaning gate or entrance, itself from Latin portare meaning to carry, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European per-.
airport (English): An airfield , including one or more runways and ...
Definitions
- An airfield , including one or more runways and ...
Ancestry of “airport”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Port | — |
| 2 | English | portfolio | A case for carrying papers, drawings,... |
| 3 | Italian | portafoglio | wallet, billfold; portfolio |
| 4 | Italian | foglio | sheet |
| 5 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
Words derived from “airport”