cargo

See also: Cargo and cargó

Contents

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, 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."

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
• cargo-200

Translations

freight carried by a ship

• Armenian: բեռ (hy) (beṙ)
• Azerbaijani: yük (az)
• Belarusian: груз m (hruz)
• Bulgarian: корабен това́р m (koraben továr)
• Catalan: càrrega (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貨物 (zh), 货物 (zh) (huòwù), 貨 (zh), 货 (zh) (huò)

• Czech: náklad (cs) m
• Danish: gods n
• Dutch: vracht (nl) f
• Esperanto: kargo
• Estonian: last (et), praht, laadung
• Finnish: lasti (fi)
• French: cargaison (fr) f
• Galician: carga f, frete m
• German: Fracht (de) f
• Greek: φορτίο (el) (fortío)

  Ancient Greek: φορτίον n (phortíon), γόμος m (gómos)

• Hebrew: מטען‎ (he) m (mit'an)
• Ido: kargo (io), kargajo (io)
• Indonesian: kargo (id)
• Italian: carico (it) m
• Japanese: 積荷 (つみに, tsumini), 貨物 (かもつ, kamotsu)

• Kazakh: жүк (kk) (jük)
• Khmer: ទំនិញ (km) (tomninh)
• Korean: 짐 (ko) (jim), 바리 (ko) (bari), 화물 (ko) (hwamul)
• Lao: ສິນຄ້າຂົນສົ່ງ (lo) (sin khā khon song)
• Latvian: krava (lv) f
• Malay: kargo
• Maori: utanga
• Old English: hlæst n
• Polish: ładunek (pl) m
• Portuguese: carga (pt) f
• Russian: груз (ru) m (gruz), това́р (ru) m (továr)
• Scottish Gaelic: carago m, (dated) luchd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: терет m

  Roman: teret (sh) m

• Spanish: carga (es) f
• Swahili: shehena (sw)
• Thai: สินค้า (th) (sǐn-káa)
• Turkish: yük (tr)
• Ukrainian: ванта́ж (uk) m (vantáž)
• Vietnamese: hàng hóa (vi)
• Welsh: cargo m

Anagrams

• Cogar, Crago

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French

Etymology

From English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ɡo/

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

• “cargo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ɡo/
• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁɡu/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾɣu/
• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarɡo/, [ˈkarɣo]
• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. charge, burden
2. position, post
3. (finance) debit
4. (heraldry) charge

cargo m (plural cargos, feminine carga, feminine plural cargas)

1. higher-up

Derived terms

• cargador
• a cargo
• hacerse cargo de

Related terms

• cargar
• cargante
• carga

Verb

cargo

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

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Venetian

Adjective

cargo m (feminine singular carga, masculine plural cargi, feminine plural carge)

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full