cargo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Goods carried by a ship, aircraft, or vehicle.

   The plane was overloaded with cargo.

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Simplified etymology

Cargo entered English through Spanish in the mid-17th century and ultimately derives from Latin carro or carricare, meaning “to load.” It belongs to the same historical word family as car, carriage, carry, charge, and chariot.

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

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