Where does “schrijverscarrière” come from?
schrijverscarrière (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.
schrijverscarrière (Dutch): writing career
Definitions
- writing career
Ancestry of “schrijverscarrière”, step by step
schrijverscarrière traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Dutch carrière
| 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 |