descarregar

Catalan

Etymology

des- +‎ carregar (“to load”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəs.kə.rəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [des.ka.reˈɣaɾ]

Verb

descarregar (first-person singular present descarrego, first-person singular preterite descarreguí, past participle descarregat)

1. to unload
2. to download

Related terms

• descàrrega

Further reading

• “descarregar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “descarregar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “descarregar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “descarregar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese descarregar, from Late Latin discarricāre, present active infinitive of discarricō (“unload”), from carricō (“load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɨʃ.kɐ.ʁɨ.ˈɣaɾ/
• Hyphenation: des‧car‧re‧gar

Verb

1. to unload (unload cargo, wares, etc from a vehicle)
2. to discharge (release an electrical charge)
3. to discharge (release a person, object from hospital, storage, etc.)
4. (Portugal, computing) to download (download programs, images, etc from websites or removable storage media)

Synonyms

• (to download): baixar (Brazil)

Related terms

• carregar
• carro