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Etymology

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From en- +‎ porter. Compare importer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te/
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emporter

  1. to take
  2. to win
  3. to take away, to blow away, to carry away
    Le vent emporte les fleurs.The wind blows away the flowers.
    • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:
      Est-ce que nos souvenirs nous protègent ? Sont-ils emportés par le temps ?
      Do our memories protect us? Are they carried away by time?
  4. to take away
    des plats à emportermeals to take away
    • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter I, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, [], →OCLC:
      Il lui parut convenable et nécessaire, aussi bien pour l’éclat de sa gloire que pour le service de son pays, de se faire chevalier errant, de s’en aller par le monde, avec son cheval et ses armes, chercher les aventures, et de pratiquer tout ce qu’il avait lu que pratiquaient les chevaliers errants, redressant toutes sortes de torts, et s’exposant à tant de rencontres, à tant de périls, qu’il acquît, en les surmontant, une éternelle renommée. Il s’imaginait déjà, le pauvre rêveur, voir couronner la valeur de son bras au moins par l’empire de Trébizonde. Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.
      It seemed to him appropriate and necessary, as much for his own glory as for the service of his country, that he should become a knight-errant, and go about the world, with his horse and his weapons, looking for adventures, and practising everything that he had read that knights-errant practised, redressing all sorts of wrongs, and exposing himself to so many encounters, to so many perils, that he should gain, in surmounting them, eternal fame. He already imagined himself, the poor dreamer, seeing himself crowned at least by the emperor of Trebizond. So taken away was he by such pleasant thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice.
  5. (reflexive, s'emporter) to get angry; to lose one's temper; to flare up

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Etymology

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From Latin importō, importāre (bring, carry or convey into), from in (in, at, on; into) + portō, portāre (carry, bear; convey).

Verb

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emporter

  1. (Jersey) to take away

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