Where does “каријера” come from?
каријера (Serbo-Croatian) comes from French carrière, from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin quadraria, from Latin quadrō, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto — and.
каријера (Serbo-Croatian): career
Definitions
- career
Ancestry of “каријера”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | carrière | racecourse; career; quarry |
| 2 | Old French | quarrière | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | quadraria | — |
| 4 | Latin | quadrō | to make four-cornered, square, make square |
| 5 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 6 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 7 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 9 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |