Where does “portfoliocarrière” come from?
portfoliocarrière (Dutch) comes from Dutch carrière, from French carrière, from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto — and.
portfoliocarrière (Dutch): a career involving several simultaneous part-time jobs; a portfolio career
Definitions
- a career involving several simultaneous part-time jobs; a portfolio career
Ancestry of “portfoliocarrière”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dutch | carrière | career, a person's occupation |
| 2 | French | carrière | racecourse; career; quarry |
| 3 | Old French | quarrière | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | quadraria | — |
| 5 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 6 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 7 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 8 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 9 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 10 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |