deport
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈpɔɹt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈpɔːt/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /dɪˈpoɹt/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /dɪˈpoət/
Audio (US): (file)
Verb
[edit]deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)
- (reflexive, now rare) To comport (oneself); to behave.
- December 30, 1710, Alexander Pope, letter to Henry Cromwell:
- Let an ambassador deport himself in the most graceful manner before a prince.
- (transitive) To evict, especially from a country.
- Ask her to deport all illegals living in this town without a green card or the appropriate documents that prove their naturalized citizenship.
- 2019, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Brett Topping, The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugène Boban:
- Boturini was accused of entering the country without permission, jailed, and deported to Spain eight years after his arrival in Mexico.
- 02/12/2021, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling Access to the comments”, in Euronews with AFP:
- Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc's asylum scheme.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to evict, especially from a country
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Noun
[edit]deport m (plural deports)
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)
- enjoyment; fun
- c. 1200, Unknown author, Aucassin et Nicolette:
- Qui vauroit bons vers oïr
del deport du viel antif- Who would like to hear a few good lines
Of amusement from the old storyteller
- Who would like to hear a few good lines
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: deport
- → Middle English: disport, disporte
- → Portuguese: desporto, desporte
- → Spanish: deporto
Old Occitan
[edit]Noun
[edit]deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)
- enjoyment; fun
- 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans
- Que d'aqui mou deportz e chans
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans
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