Goods or products that are carried by ship, plane, truck, or train.
From Spanish 'carga', meaning 'load' or 'burden', from 'cargar', 'to load', which comes from Late Latin 'carricare', 'to load a wagon'. It’s closely related to 'car' and 'carriage'.
The word 'cargo' is basically 'stuff loaded onto a car' in older languages. It shows how transportation words—car, carriage, cargo—are all branches of the same idea: moving loads from one place to another.
Complete word intelligence in one call. Free tier — 50 lookups/day.