supracargo

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ḱers-“to run”
2. Latin · derived fromcarrus“cart, wagon; cartload”
3. Late Latin · derived fromcarricāre
4. Italian · borrowed fromsopracargo
5. English todaysupracargo

From English supra- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + borrowed from Italian sopracargo, a dialectal form of sopraccarico, from sopra- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + carico (“cargo”) (from caricare (“to load; to take aboard”), from Late Latin carricāre, the present active infinitive of carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“cart, wagon; cartload”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”)) + -icō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).

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