Pronounced: KAH-luh-gate, verb
Notes: I thought of “collegiate”, but this word is not that one
Yesterday’s word
The word supercargo is
- an officer on a merchant ship who is in charge of the cargo
- a superintendent or an agent
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
I would not have thought that a supervisor of cargo would be what a supercargo is. The word is an alteration of supracargo, which came from the Spanish word sobrecargo, of which sobre (over) came from the Latin word super (super).
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