Where does “carreira” come from?
carreira (Old Occitan) comes from Latin carrāria, from Latin carrarius, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros, from Proto-Celtic karros, from Proto-Indo-European ḱr̥sós, from Proto-Indo-European ḱers- — to run.
Ancestry of “carreira”, step by step
Words derived from “carreira”