Meaning

1 senses

  1. To load or unload a ship's cargo.

Origin

From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stiv

From Spanish estibador (cognate with Portuguese estivador, and compare Medieval Latin stivator), from estivar, estibar (“to load”), from Medieval Latin stivare, stīpāre (compare Italian stivare, stipare), the present active infinitive of stīpō (“to cram, fill, stuff”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *steypos, which is from the root Proto-Indo-European *steyp-. It is cognate with stiff through Proto-Indo-European.

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Forms

stevedores, stevedoring, stevedored, stevedored
Base formstevedore · to stevedore
3rd person singularstevedores
Present participlestevedoring
Past simplestevedored
Past participlestevedored

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystevedore
he, she, itstevedores

Past simpleLesson

all personsstevedored

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave stevedored
he, she, ithas stevedored

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill stevedore

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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