transportare

Transportare is a verb form primarily encountered in Latin, where it serves as the present active infinitive meaning “to transport across” or “to carry across.” It is built from the prefix trans- meaning across and the verb portare, “to carry.” In Latin dictionaries, transportare appears as a standard 1st-conjugation infinitive, with the typical principal parts including transporto, transportare, transportavi, transportatum.

In the context of Romance languages, cognate verbs derive from this Latin root. The modern Italian infinitive is trasportare (with an s after the t), meaning “to transport.” In Spanish and Portuguese, the corresponding infinitives are transportar. Other Romance languages have similar forms, often with only minor phonetic changes. The Latin form transportare itself is not used as a standard modern form in these languages but remains relevant for etymology and historical linguistics.

Usage and sense: in Latin, transportare is used to describe moving goods, people, or objects from one location to another, typically with direct objects denoting what is transported and various case constructions or prepositional phrases indicating destination and path. In modern Romance languages, the verb retains the core sense of transferring or conveying something from one place to another, though each language revises spelling and morphology to fit its own grammar.

See also: transportation, transport (disambiguation), portare, trans- prefixes in Latin and Romance languages.