descarregar

Inherited from Late Latin discarricāre. By surface analysis, des- +‎ carregar. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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descarregar (first-person singular present descarrego, first-person singular preterite descarreguí, past participle descarregat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to unload
2. to download

   Synonym: baixar

   Antonym: penjar

3. (castells) to completely build and then successfully dismantle (a castell) without its falling

• descarregable

• descàrrega
• carregar

• “descarregar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “descarregar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “descarregar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Old Galician-Portuguese descarregar, from Late Latin discarricāre (“to unload”), from carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“car, wagon”).

• Hyphenation: des‧car‧re‧gar

descarregar (first-person singular present descarrego, first-person singular preterite descarreguei, past participle descarregado)

1. to unload (unload cargo, wares, etc from a vehicle)
2. to discharge (release an electrical charge)
3. to discharge (release a person, object from hospital, storage, etc.)
4. (Portugal, computing) to download (download programs, images, etc from websites or removable storage media)

   Synonym: (Brazil) baixar

• carregar
• carro