cargo
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricare.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
- Hyphenation: car‧go
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
freight carried by a ship
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
cargo m (plural cargos)
- ship designed to carry a cargo
Further readingEdit
- “cargo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cargo m (plural carghi)
- cargo boat
- freighter (boat or plane)
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cargo m (plural cargos)
Scottish GaelicEdit
NounEdit
cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)
- Alternative form of carago.
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cargo m (plural cargos)
cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)
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VerbEdit
cargo
VenetianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
cargo m (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)