deport

Borrowed from French déporter. With the meaning of "behave", from Old French deporter (“behave”), from Latin deportō, from de- + portō.

• (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/

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deport (third-person singular simple present deports, present participle deporting, simple past and past participle deported)

1. (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.

2. (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.

• de trop, ported, red top, red-top, redtop, troped

deport m (plural deports)

1. sport

   Synonym: esport

• desport

deport oblique singular, m (oblique plural deporz or deportz, nominative singular deporz or deportz, nominative plural deport)

1. 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

• → Catalan: deport
• → Middle English: disport, disporte
  • ⇒ Middle English: sport, spoort, sporte
    • English: sport (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: sport
• → Portuguese: desporto, desporte
• → Spanish: deporto

deport m (oblique plural deports, nominative singular deports, nominative plural deport)

1. enjoyment; fun
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Ges de chantar no.m pren talans

     Que d'aqui mou deportz e chans

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