port-, portat-

1. An athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
2. A particular form of this; especially, outside.
3. Diversion; recreation; pleasant pastime.

The Meaning of the Word Sport:

One of the most commonly used English words which we hear and see is “sports” along with “sports events”, “sports programs”, “sports activities”, “multi sports”, and many other applications having to do with sports; however, did you every wonder where the word came from? Well, maybe you don’t care where it came from, but if you are even a little curious, read on!

From about 1400, sporte meant a pleasant pastime, amusement, diversion; shortened from an earlier dysporte from about 1303; and borrowed from Anglo-French disport, from Old French desport meaning "a pastime", "recreation", "pleasure", from desporter "to divert", "to amuse" (one- self), "to please", and "to play".

The sense of a game, usually one involving physical exercise, was first recorded in English in 1523. The meaning of "good fellow" (as in “be a good sport”) developed about 1905 from the earlier sense of someone who was concerned with sports, sportsman (1861).

Disport Is the Original Form of the Word Sport

Another word that dictionaries refer to as contributing to the origin of the word “sport” is disport which was borrowed from Old French desporter, literally, “to carry away”, as of from Old French desporter, literally, to carry away , as of the attention from serious matters (des- “away”, from Latin dis-, + porter “to carry" or "to bear”, from Latin portare).

So, the result of this discussion about such a well-known word may be summarized by saying, "sport" is an abbreviation of the original disport and the noun originally meant “to carry away”, especially “to carry away from work” and, by extension, “amusement” or “recreation”, which is what people do by amusing themselves when playing a sport; that is, if they are not “professional athletes”. It was not used in its main modern sense as “athletic contests” until the mid 19th century.

Emperor Nero, Chariot Racer

It is a matter of historical record that the emperor of Rome won every event in which he entered during the Olympics held in A.D. 67. In fact, when Emperor Nero on one occasion fell from his chariot during a race, the other contestants politely (and wisely) waited until he had remounted and sped on before they continued the race.

1. To carry the weight of, especially from below.
2. To maintain in position so as to keep from falling, sinking, or slipping.
3. To be able to bear or withstand.
4. To provide for, by supplying with money or necessities.

To transport oneself by teleportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another point with psychokinesis or the supposed ability to use mental powers to make objects move or to otherwise affect them.

1. The conveyance of people (especially of oneself) or things by psychic power; also in futuristic descriptions, apparently instantaneous transportation of people, etc., across space by advanced technological methods. 2. A hypothetical method (in science fiction) of transportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another point with psychokinesis which is the supposed ability to use mental powers to make objects move or to otherwise affect them.

The action of carrying or conveying a thing or person from one place to another.

The ability of carrying something or someone around; usually over long distances; the possibility of sending someone or something from one place to another.

The action or process of transporting; conveyance (of things or persons) from one place to another.