'Transport' is Latin for 'carry across' — from 'trans-' + 'portare.' Kin to 'deport' and 'sport.'
To carry or convey from one place to another; to overwhelm with strong emotion.
From Latin 'trānsportāre' (to carry across), composed of 'trāns-' (across, beyond, through) + 'portāre' (to carry, to bear). The PIE root is *per- (to lead, to pass over, to carry through), one of the most productive roots in the language — it underlies 'port,' 'porter,' 'portal,' 'import,' 'export,' 'report,' 'ferry,' 'ford,' and 'fare.' The word entered English in the 15th century with the literal sense of carrying goods
In British penal history, 'transportation' was the legal sentence of being shipped to a penal colony — literally carried across the ocean as punishment. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of British convicts were 'transported' to the American colonies and later to Australia. The word preserves its Latin meaning with grim precision: the convicts were carried across