cargo

English

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricare.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable; plural cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
   • 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson

     "…her whole and entire cargo; and, also, all such other cargoes and property as may have been landed in the island of Teneriffe,…"

   • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence,

     "…but human life is worth more than ships or cargos."

2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.
   • 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi

     "They wrote of Pacific people with millenarian (and sometimes anti-colonial) expectations who used magical means to get western things (hence the term "cargo" cult)."

Derived terms

• cargo cult

Translations

freight carried by a ship

• Armenian: բեռ (hy) (beṙ)
• Bulgarian: корабен товар (bg) (koraben tovar) m
• Catalan: càrrega f
• Danish: gods (da) n
• Dutch: vracht (nl) f
• Finnish: lasti (fi)
• French: cargaison (fr) f
• German: Fracht (de) f
• Hebrew: מטען (he) (mit'an) m

• Japanese: 積荷 (ja) (つみに, tsumini)
• Korean: 짐 (jim), 바리 (bari)
• Latvian: krava (lv) f
• Malay: muatan (ms)
• Maori: utanga (mi)
• Old English: hlæst (ang) n
• Russian: груз (gruz) и
• Scottish Gaelic: carago (gd) m, (dated) luchd (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: teret (sh) m
• Spanish: carga (es) f
• Swahili: shehena (sw)

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French

Etymology

From English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kaʁ.ɡɔ/, X-SAMPA: /kaR.gO/

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

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Italian

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

1. cargo boat
2. freighter (boat or plane)

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Portuguese

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. post, occupation, profession
2. office; responsibility

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

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Spanish

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position (work)

Related terms

• cargar
• cargante
• carga

Derived terms

• a cargo
• hacerse cargo de

Verb

cargo (infinitive cargar)

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cargar.

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Venetian

Adjective

cargo m (f carga, m plural cargi, f plural carge)

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full