tonelaje

tonnage

noun toh-neh-LAH-heh Rare

Origin: From French tonnage, from tonne.

Usage Note

Tonelaje refers to a ship's cargo capacity or total registered weight, a key metric in maritime trade. It also appears figuratively in journalism to mean sheer volume or weight of something. The suffix -aje (from French -age) is common in Spanish nautical vocabulary (velaje, cordaje).

Examples

"El barco tiene un tonelaje de diez mil toneladas."

Natural Translation

The ship has a tonnage of ten thousand tons.

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