carregar

Inherited from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kə.rəˈɣa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.reˈɣaɾ]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

carregar (first-person singular present carrego, first-person singular preterite carreguí, past participle carregat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to load
2. to charge (a battery)
3. (castells) to completely construct a castell (speaking of a castell either before it has been dismantled, or when it has fallen rather than being successfully dismantled)

   Coordinate terms: descarregar, intent, intent desmuntat

• descarregar
• recarregar

• carro

• “carregar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “carregar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• cargar

Inherited from Late Latin carricō, from carrus + -ico.

carregar

1. to load (to put a load on or in)

• Fala: cargal, calgal (Lagarteiru)
• Galician: carregar, cargar
• Portuguese: carregar

• Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2025), “carregar”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “carregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “carreg”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese carregar, from Late Latin carricāre (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”), from Gaulish.

• (Rio Grande do Sul) IPA^(key): /ka.ʀe.ˈɡaɾ/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.ʁe.ˈɡah/
• Hyphenation: car‧re‧gar

carregar (first-person singular present carrego, first-person singular preterite carreguei, past participle carregado)

1. to carry

   Synonym: transportar

2. to load (put wares into a vehicle)
3. (Portugal, computing) to load (load a software into the primary memory)
4. (Portugal, computing) to upload

   Synonyms: fazer upload, (Brazil) subir

   Antonyms: descarregar, fazer download

5. (electronics) to charge (load equipment with material required for its use)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:carregar.

• carro