tonnage

tonnage

See also: Tonnage

English

Etymology

From Old French tonnage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

tonnage (countable and uncountable, plural tonnages)

1. The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
2. The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
3. The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
4. A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
5. The total shipping of a fleet or nation.

Synonyms

• (ships, shipping): tunnage

Coordinate terms

• (charge per ton): cranage, demurrage, shippage, shorage, wharfage

Translations

shipping

Belarusian: тана́ж m (tanáž) Bulgarian: тона́ж m (tonáž) Danish: tonnage c Finnish: vetoisuus (fi) French: tonnage (fr) m Indonesian: tonase (id) Irish: (please verify) tonnáiste m Japanese: トン数 (tonsū) Norwegian: Bokmål: tonnasje m Nynorsk: tonnasje m Russian: тонна́ж (ru) m (tonnáž) Scottish Gaelic: luingeas m or f Swedish: tonnage (sv) n Ukrainian: тонна́ж m (tonnáž)

Anagrams

• negaton

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tonnage. Later influenced by English tonnage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɔˈnaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: ton‧na‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

tonnage f (uncountable)

1. tonnage (water displacement of a ship measured in tons)
2. tonnage (cargo capacity of a ship's hold)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: tonase

See also

• waterverplaatsing

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French

Etymology

From Old French, equivalent to tonne +‎ -age, tonneau +‎ -age. However, the Old French word referred to a type of feudal tax, and the modern nautical meanings are a seventeenth-century semantic loan from English tonnage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.naʒ/

• Audio (Vosges, France)

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Noun

tonnage m (plural tonnages)

1. tonnage

Descendants

• → Danish: tonnage
• → German: Tonnage
• → Swedish: tonnage
• → Turkish: tonaj

Further reading

• “tonnage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.