Where does “carrière” come from?
carrière (French) comes from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto, from Latin quārtus — and.
carrière (French): racecourse; career; quarry
Definitions
- racecourse; career; quarry
Ancestry of “carrière”, step by step
carrière traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French quarrière
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | quarrière | — |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | quadraria | — |
| 3 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 4 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 5 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 6 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 7 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 8 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |
via Italian carriera
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | carriera | career; the fastest gait |
| 2 | Old Occitan | carreira | — |
| 3 | Latin | carrāria | a wide road for vehicles; a path for carts; the descendants have the meaning ”path, footpath” |
| 4 | Latin | carrarius | pertaining to a cart |
| 5 | Latin | carrus | a wagon, a four-wheeled baggage cart; a cartload,... |
| 6 | Gaulish | karros | wagon |
| 7 | Proto-Celtic | karros | wagon |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱr̥sós | vehicle |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱers- | to run |
via Middle French carriere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | carriere | career |