exportare

Exportare is a term encountered in Italian-language contexts to denote the act of exporting. In normative Italian, the standard verb for exporting goods and services is esportare, and this is the form typically taught in grammar and used in official writing. Exportare is commonly seen as an anglicism or calque, especially in information technology, business software, and informal communication, where it appears as the verb used in program interfaces and documentation to describe exporting data or objects.

Etymology and cognates

Both esportare and exportare trace their semantic origin to the Latin ex portare, meaning to carry out. The English verb to export and the French exporter share the same root, reflecting a broader family of terms for moving goods across borders in Romance and other languages.

Usage and context

Commerce: esportare beni or esportazioni. Data handling: exportare dati, esportare un file. User interfaces and software: the term is often encountered in Italian menus or documentation that borrow the English form. Norms: style guides generally prefer esportare in formal prose; exportare appears more often in technical or colloquial contexts and may be flagged as anglicismo by purist references.

Conjugation and style

Grammatically, it would follow regular -are conjugation patterns, but in practice many speakers avoid it in favor of esportare in formal contexts; in IT contexts, “exportare” is often kept as-is due to widespread use in user interfaces.

See also

Esportazione, esportare, esportazioni, esportazione, esportare.