Communicates or expresses an idea, feeling, or information to someone; also means to transport something from one place to another.
From Old French 'conveyer' meaning 'to accompany' or 'to escort.' This comes from Latin 'con-' (together) + 'via' (way/road), literally meaning 'to travel together.' The meaning evolved from physical accompaniment to communicating ideas.
The original sense of 'convey' was about traveling together on the same road—this reveals that humans understood communication as a kind of shared journey where meaning travels from one person to another, which is actually a beautiful metaphor for how language works.
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