tonnage

From Old French tonnage.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌnɪd͡ʒ/

tonnage (countable and uncountable, plural tonnages)

1. The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
   • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

     With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

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.

• (ships, shipping): tunnage

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

• negaton

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɔˈnaː.ʒə/

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

tonnage f (uncountable)

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

• → Indonesian: tonase

• waterverplaatsing

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.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.naʒ/

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tonnage m (plural tonnages)

1. tonnage

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

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