We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
aporter1 (s.xii1/3)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

aporter1 (s.xii1/3)

Cite this entry
apporter  (aportir)  
  FEW:  apportare 25,46a Gdf:  aporter 1,349b GdfC:  aporter 8,150c TL: aporter 1,462 DEAF:  porter (*)  DMF:  apporter  TLF:  apporter  OED:  apport v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  apportare 2 108a

v.trans.

1to bring, fetch: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Jagunces [...]; d’Ethyope est ceste aportee  Lapid 42.375
( c.1135; MS: 1267-68 )  Et pain et vin li aportoit  S Marg wace 298 (A)
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Li reis comande a ses vallez K’il aportent lur berserez  S Gile1 1800
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ewe clere fist aporter Pur lur pez et lur meinz laver  S Audree1 427
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Pain aportent li despenser E le beivre li butiller  S Modw 4219
♦to bring, bear (news): 
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Car vos estez fresaie asez Pur la novele qu’aportez  Trist thomas2 885
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  puske ceo noveles me aportés  Boeve 98
♦to bring, offer (advice, etc): 
( 1330 )  issint qeux tretent ové […] et qeux apportent lur avis devant le roi  Rot Parl2 208
( 1332 )  Des queux custumes […] bailletz l’avantdit nostre seignur le roi ad aporté bone e ferme garauntie a la dite dame  Rot Parl2 219
( 1389 )  a cause q’ils n’apporterent mye sufficeant garrant  Rot Parl1 iii 259
2to bring (in): 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  tel previlege i aporta Ke tut tens […] durera  S Audree1 1915
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  ceux qe monee countrefete et aukes semblable a nostre eynt aporté en nostre reaume en despit et damage de nous et de nostre poeple  BRITT i 25
♦to bring in, harvest: 
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  aprés les bleez et feyns aportez  Nov Narr 74
♦to bring in, yield: 
( c.1300 )  une maison qe franc est et n’aporte fors une livere de comyn  Bor Cust ii 202
♦to bring in, make appeal to: 
( 1260; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  La vient ele et enrache meisons […] a sun deseretisun parunt il en ad aporté la defense le Roi en plein contee a defendre le wast  Brev Plac 65-66
3to carry: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  gerentes: aportant  TLL ii 102
( MS: s.xiii )  conferant: aportent  TLL ii 117
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Nobles genz e gentils nen aportent point de fardeus  Ancren2 247.3
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  convectat: aportey  TLL i 43
♦to bear: 
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  E le fouder qe lé foudeines aporte  BIBB ROTH (G) 680
♦to bear (a child): 
( 1310-20 )  la primere Marie aporta J.C.  Qu Mary’s Ps 68r
4to (mis)appropriate, carry off: 
( MS: s.xiiim )  Si l’aporta od lui larecinusement  Vitas 2969
( 1291-92 )  ses biens unt aporté a ses damages de seisante liveres esterlin  Sel Bills Eyre 31
♦to carry, sweep away: 
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1333 )  Endementers les apport La tempeste qe fust fort  Geanz Verse (L) 231
5 to export: 
( 1420 )  qe nulle persone […] ne amesne, ne apporte hors du roialme d’Engleterre […] or ne argent  Rot Parl1 iv 126

v.refl.

to behave (=se porter): 
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  il se aporte bonement depuis que je lui amesna a vous  Lett & Pet 335.277.12
( 1407 )  pur ceo qe nous sumes enformez a present coment le dite William luy ad apporté nyent graciousement devers vous  Goldsmiths 324

See also:

emporter1  porter2  raporter 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
aporter_1