cargo
English
Etymology
From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricare.
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(r)ɡəʊ
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."
- 1806, James Harrison, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
- (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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaʁ.ɡo/
Further reading
- “cargo” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkar.ɡo/
- Hyphenation: car‧go
Portuguese
Scottish Gaelic
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkarɡo/, [ˈkarɣo]
- Hyphenation: car‧go
Venetian
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