English → Latin
“transport” in Latin
portōto carry, bear; to convey, bring; to weartrānsportōto carry across; to transporttrānsvehōto carry, bear, convey across or over; to transport; to pass bytrānsferōto bear, carry or bring across or over; transport, transfer, convey over; to copy, transcribe, transfer; to carry along trānsmittōto transmit, send, carry, or convey across, over or through; to send off, despatch; to let go; to go or pass over or acrincrēdibilisunbelievable, incredibleimpotēnsPowerless, weak, feeble, impotent, helpless, puny.; Unable to control, having no power over; incapable of.; Unbridled, uexcandēscōto kindle; to catch fire; to become angry, enraged with passion; (figuratively) to grow hot or burn with anger, rage, ordēsīderōto want, desire, wish for, long for; to miss, lack, need; to lose
The English word transport itself goes back to Latin portō, through trānsportō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
transport v.
To carry or send over, portare: transportare: transvehere (to carry over sea or land; persons or things): transferre (to carry over; things): transmittere: trajicere (to put across over the sea; persons or things): aliquem cum custodibus mittere aliquo (to send away in custody).
To banish, Vid:
To delight, ravish, mirifice oblectare, delenire aliquem; perfundere aliquem suavissima, incredibili, quadam voluptate, suavissimo voluptatis sensu; ad se convertere et rapere (e.g., me totum ad se convertit et rapit Homerus de Hectoris ab Andromacha, discessu narrans; Cic., Off., 2, 10, 27).
transport s.
Transportation; by the verb. Sen., says transportationes populorum; i. e., migrations.
Rapture, animi impetus or impotentia (Cic.): impotentis animi effrenatio. Transport of rage, excandescentia (Cic.); fervens animus ab ira (Ov.).
A vessel employed for conveying troops, navigium vectorium: navicula vectoria (for conveying troops, etc.): navis oneraria (a ship of burden). None of the transports were missing, nulla navis, quae milites portaret, desiderabatur.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for transport?
- The usual Latin words for “transport” are portō, trānsportō, trānsvehō; also trānsferō, trānsmittō, incrēdibilis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.