# comport
## English
### Etymology

From late Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, from Latin comportare (“to bring together”), from com- (“together”) + portare (“to carry”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kəmˈpɔː(ɹ)t/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

### Verb

comport (third-person singular simple present comports, present participle comporting, simple past and past participle comported)
* (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To tolerate, bear, put up (with). [16th–19th c.]
    to comport with an injury
** 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:The malecontented sort / That never can the present state comport.
* (intransitive) To be in agreement (with); to be of an accord. [from 16th c.]
    The new rules did not seem to comport with the spirit of the club.
** 1622 May 24 (licensing date), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Prophetesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii:How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
** a. 1705 (date written), [John Locke], “[(please specify the title)]”, in A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 17, →OCLC:How their behaviour herein comported with the institution.
* (reflexive) To behave (in a given manner). [from 17th c.]
    She comported herself with grace.
** 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:Observe how Lord Somers […] comported himself.
** 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter I, in Leave It to Psmith:Though genial enough when she got her way, on the rare occasions when people attempted to thwart her she was apt to comport herself in a manner reminiscent of Cleopatra on one of the latter’s bad mornings.

#### Synonyms

* (be in agreement): cohere
* (behave): carry oneself, bear oneself

#### Derived terms

* comportable

#### Translations
### Noun

comport
* (obsolete) Manner of acting; conduct; comportment; deportment.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:I know them well, and mark'd their rude comport.
** 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:Personal virtues can be symbolic of capital—e.g., comport and charm as marks of “good” breeding—but to be a “celebrity” or “surgeon” or “professor” requires specific forms of capital.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Deverbal from comportar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kumˈpɔrt]
* IPA: (Balearic) [komˈpɔrt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [komˈpɔɾt]

### Noun

comport m (plural comports)
* conduct, behaviour

### Further reading

* “comport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [komˈport]

### Verb

comport
* first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of comporta