Etymology

carport

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Today it means: A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors. Full definition →

First used 1936French porte cochère
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The story

  1. French · derived fromporte cochère
  2. English todaycarport

From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchporte cochère all →

porte cochère

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1936 A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.