cargo

English Online Dictionary. What means cargo‎? What does cargo mean?

English

Etymology

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːɡəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹɡoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo (countable and uncountable, plural cargos or cargoes)

1. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
2. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cargo (third-person singular simple present cargos, present participle cargoing, simple past and past participle cargoed)

1. (transitive) To load with freight.

Anagrams

• Cogar, Crago

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cargo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ɡo/

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

1. ship designed to carry a cargo

Further reading

• “cargo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

cargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cargar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -arɡo
• Hyphenation: càr‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural carghi)

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: car‧go

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cargo m (genitive singular cargo, plural cargothan)

1. Alternative form of carago.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾɡo/ [ˈkaɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡo
• Syllabification: car‧go

Etymology 1

Deverbal from cargar.

Noun

cargo m (plural cargos)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

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

1. higher-up

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cargar

Further reading

• “cargo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Venetan

Adjective

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

1. loaded, laden
2. charged
3. full