Etymology
1. c.1225, from O.Fr.
chargier "load, burden," from L.L.
carricare "to load a wagon, cart," from L.
carrus "wagon" (see car). Meaning "responsibility, burden" is c.1340 (cf.
take charge, 1389;
in charge, 1513), which progressed to "pecuniary burden, cost" (1460), and then to "price demanded for service or goods" (1514). Legal sense of "accusation" is 1477; earlier "injunction, order" (1380s). Sense of "rush in to attack" is 1568, perhaps through earlier meaning of "load a weapon" (1541). Electrical sense is from 1767. Slang meaning "thrill, kick" (Amer.Eng.) is from 1951.
Charger "horse ridden by officer in the field" is from 1762.
Chargé d'affairs was borrowed from Fr. 1767.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
5. Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
6. Proto-Celtic *karros
7. Gaulish *karrosbor.
8. Latin carrus
9. Latin -ic-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
12. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
13. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
14. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
15. Proto-Italic *-ājō
16. Proto-Italic *-āō
17. Latin -ō
18. Latin -ico
19. Latin carricō
20. Late Latin carricāre
21. Old French chargierder.
22. Middle English chargen
23. English charge
24. From Middle English chargen, from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricō (“to load”), from Latin carrus (“a car, wagon”); see car. Doublet of cargo. See: Old French '
chargier'.
Verbs referencing "charge"
Spanish
cargar, Esperanto
ŝarĝi, Ido charjar, Thai
ชาร์จ.