cargo
English
Etymology
From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin carricare.
Pronunciation
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- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
- Hyphenation: car‧go
Noun
cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)
- Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- 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."
- (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)."
- 1995, Martha Kaplan, Neither Cargo Nor Cult: Ritual Politics and the Colonial Imagination in Fiji, Duke University Press, page xi
Derived terms
Translations
freight carried by a ship
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cargo m (plural cargos)
- ship designed to carry a cargo
Further reading
- “cargo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
cargo m (plural carghi)
- cargo boat
- freighter (boat or plane)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "BR" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkaʁɡu/
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- Hyphenation: car‧go
Noun
cargo m (plural cargos)
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)
- Alternative form of carago.
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
cargo m (plural cargos)
cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)
Derived terms
Related terms
Verb
cargo
Venetian
Adjective
cargo (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)
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