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Where does “passport” come from?

Passport comes from French passeport, from French passer and Latin passus, a past participle meaning "step" or "passage," combined with the agent suffix Latin -arius.

passport (English): An official document normally used for...

Definitions

  1. An official document normally used for...

Ancestry of “passport”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpasseportpassport
2Frenchportport, harbour; port, harbour city; refuge
3Frenchporterto carry; to support, to bear; to wear
4EnglishporterA person who carries luggage and related objects;...
5Middle Englishporter—
6Old Frenchportourcarrier; bearer
7Old Frenchporterto carry; to carry a child
8Old French-mentUsed to form adverbs, most of the time equivalent...
9Latin-mentuminstrument, medium, or result of; e.g....
10Latin-mentanominative plural of -mentum; accusative plural...
11Proto-Indo-European-mn̥Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs

Words derived from “passport”

  • passporting
  • passported
  • passportless
  • passportification
  • e-passport
  • passportable
  • パスポート
  • पासपोर्ट
  • พาสปอร์ต
  • paspoti
  • ပတ်စပို့
  • paspot
  • ပႃးၸပူတ်ႉ
  • fasfo
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