The story
- Late Latin · derived fromcarricō
- Spanish · borrowed fromcargo“load, burden”
- English todaycargo
Borrowed from Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Displaced native Old English fearm.
Words from the same roots
Late Latincarricō all →
charge
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.