Where does “transportation” come from?
Transportation comes from Middle English transporten, from Old French -ation, from Latin -atio and -tio suffixes, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European per- and terh₂- meaning to carry or cross over.
transportation (English): The act of transporting, or the state of being...
Definitions
- The act of transporting, or the state of being...
Ancestry of “transportation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -ation | An action or process; The result of an action or... |
| 2 | Middle English | -acioun | Forms nouns denoting an action, act, or doing,... |
| 3 | Old French | -ation | ation |
| 4 | Latin | -ātiō | — |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “transportation”
- teleportation
- teleport
- teleporter
- transportational
- nontransportation
- antitransportation
- teleportational
- cotransportation
- biotransportation
- evapotransportation
- hydrotransportation
- pretransportation
- teletransportation
- transportationist
- teleportacja
- テレポーテーション
- 텔레포테이션
- teleportitis
- teleportal
- teleportage
- teleportable
- teleportar
- teleportata
- teleportować