carga

From Spanish carga (“a load, 4 Spanish bushels”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“cart”). Doublet of charge and cargo.

carga (plural cargas)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 222 liters.

• (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (¹⁄₁₉₂ carga), medio (¹⁄₉₆ carga), celemin (¹⁄₄₈ carga), cuartilla (¹⁄₁₆ carga), cuarto (¹⁄₈ carga), fanega (¹⁄₄ carga), saco (¹⁄₂ carga), cahiz (3 cargas)

Borrowed from Spanish carga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑr.ɣaː/

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• Hyphenation: car‧ga

carga f (plural carga's)

1. (nautical) cargo

   Synonyms: bevrachting, lading, last, vracht

carga f (plural cargas)

1. charge
2. burden, load

carga

1. inflection of cargar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese carga, carrega, a back-formation from carregar (“to carry”) (Modern Portuguese carregar).

• Hyphenation: car‧ga

carga f (plural cargas)

1. charge (load or burden)

   Synonym: fardo

2. cargo
3. charge (of a weapon or battery)

   A bateria tem carga suficiente.

   The battery has enough charge.

4. electric charge

• carga-elétrica, carga-horária, carga-útil
• monta-cargas

• “carga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾɡa/ [ˈkaɾ.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -aɾɡa
• Syllabification: car‧ga

Deverbal from cargar.

carga f (plural cargas)

1. load
2. burden
3. cargo
4. charge
5. (historical) carga (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 222 L)
6. (American football) blitz

• (unit of dry volume): cuartillo (¹⁄₁₉₂ carga), medio (¹⁄₉₆ carga), celemín (¹⁄₄₈ carga), cuartilla (¹⁄₁₆ carga), cuarto (¹⁄₈ carga), fanega (¹⁄₄ carga), saco (¹⁄₂ carga), cahíz (3 cargas)

carga f (plural cargas)

1. female equivalent of cargo

carga

1. inflection of cargar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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