# carregar
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kə.rəˈɣa]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ka.reˈɣaɾ]

### Verb

carregar (first-person singular present carrego, first-person singular preterite carreguí, past participle carregat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* to load
* to charge (a battery)
* (castells) to completely construct a castell (speaking of a castell either before it has been dismantled, or when it has fallen before being successfully dismantled)

#### Derived terms

* descarregar
* recarregar

#### Related terms

* carro

### Further reading

* “carregar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “carregar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* cargar

### Etymology

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

### Verb

carregar
* to load (to put a load on or in)

#### Related terms

* carregado
* carreira
* carreiron
* carreta
* descarregar

#### Descendants

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

### References

* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “carregar”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carregar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carreg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ka.ʁeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ka.heˈɡa(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ka.ʁeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ka.heˈɡa(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ka.ʁeˈɡa(ɾ)/ [ka.heˈɡa(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ka.ʁeˈɡa(ʁ)/ [ka.χeˈɡa(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ka.ʁeˈɡa(ɻ)/ [ka.heˈɡa(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐ.ʁɨˈɡaɾ/ [kɐ.ʁɨˈɣaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐ.ʁɨˈɡaɾ/ [kɐ.ʁɨˈɣaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kɐ.ʁɨˈɡa.ɾi/ [kɐ.ʁɨˈɣa.ɾi]
* (Rio Grande do Sul) IPA: /ka.ʀe.ˈɡaɾ/
* (Northeast Brazil) IPA: /ka.ʁe.ˈɡah/
* Hyphenation: car‧re‧gar

### Verb

carregar (first-person singular present carrego, first-person singular preterite carreguei, past participle carregado)
* to carry
    Synonym: transportar
* to load (put wares into a vehicle)
* (Portugal, computing) to load (load a software into the primary memory)
* (Portugal, computing) to upload
    Synonyms: fazer upload, (Brazil) subir
    Antonyms: descarregar, fazer download
* (electronics) to charge (load equipment with material required for its use)

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:carregar.

#### Derived terms

* carregador
* carregamento

#### Related terms

* carro