caricate

Caricate is a grammatical form in the Italian language. It is the second-person plural form used in the present tense of the verb caricare, meaning to load or to charge. The same form also functions as the imperative for voi when giving a command to a group, as in Caricate le scatole sul camion. Because Italian verbs in the voi form share the same spelling for the present indicative and the imperative, caricate can appear in both senses depending on the syntactic context.

Etymology and related forms help place caricate within the broader verb family. The infinitive caricare derives from Latin carricare, related to carrus meaning cart. Related forms include carico (noun, meaning load), caricato (past participle, meaning loaded), and other conjugated forms such as carico, carichi, carica, and caricano, each serving different grammatical roles in sentences.

Usage notes and limitations are important. Caricate does not stand alone as a dictionary entry; it is a inflected form of a verb. It is not a separate word with its own independent meaning. Learners should distinguish caricate from similarly spelled nouns or adjectives and from other verb forms like caricato or carichiamo. In contexts outside Italian, caricate is not recognized as a standard term and may be encountered only as a misspelling or in discussions of Italian grammar.

In other contexts, caricate may appear as a proper noun or fictional term in literature or media, but such uses are desultory and not part of standard linguistic or scholarly nomenclature. For cross-reference, see also caricare, carico, and caricato.