stevedore

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈstiːvəˌdɔː(ɹ)/
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• General-American: /ˈstivəˌdɔɹ/
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• CMU ARPABET: S T IY1 V AH0 D AO2 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was attested in 1788 in the early form stowadore (see the quotations). It was included in the 1st edition of Webster’s Dictionary (1828) as stevedore.

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: докер (doker) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Chinese Mandarin: 碼頭工人 /码头工人 (mǎtou gōngrén) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Chinese Mandarin: 碼頭裝卸工人 /码头装卸工人 (mǎtóu zhuāngxiè gōngrén) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Chinese Mandarin: 搬運工 /搬运工 (bānyùngōng) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Dutch: stuwadoor — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Dutch: havenarbeider — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Esperanto: stivisto — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Esperanto: dokisto — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Finnish: ahtaaja — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• French: stevedore — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• French: manutentionnaire — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• French: aconier — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• German: Hafenarbeiter — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Greek: στιβαδόρος (stivadóros) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Hebrew: סְטִיבָדוֹר (stivador) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Hebrew: סַוָּר (savar) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Hungarian: rakodómunkás — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Hungarian: dokkmunkás — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Ido: stivisto — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Irish: stíbheadóir — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Italian: stivatore — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Italian: scaricatore di porto — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Japanese: 港湾労働者 (kōwan rōdōsha) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Norwegian: havnearbeider — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Norwegian: bryggesjauer — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjauer — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjauar — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Polish: sztauer — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Portuguese: estivador — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Romanian: docher — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Romanian: portuar — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Russian: гру́зчик (grúzčik) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Russian: до́кер (dóker) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Russian: порто́вый гру́зчик (portóvyj grúzčik) — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Spanish: estibador — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Spanish: arrumante — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Swedish: stuvare — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Swedish: stuveriarbetare — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo
• Tagalog: estibador — dockworker involved in loading and unloading cargo