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"career" in seven languages

Meaningcareer

Spanish

carrera

/kaˈreɾa/

fem.inherited

Also a race and a university degree: hacer la carrera de Derecho.

French

carrière

/kaʁjɛʁ/

fem.borrowed · Old Provençal carriera or Italian carriera

Italian

carriera

/karˈrjɛra/

fem.borrowed · Old Provençal carriera

Portuguese

carreira

/kaˈhejɾɐ/

fem.inherited

Romanian

carieră

/kariˈerə/

fem.borrowed · French carrière

Catalan

carrera

/kəˈreɾə/

fem.inherited

carrera is also a university degree course in Catalan and Spanish.

English

career

/kəˈɹɪɹ/

from Latin/French · French carrière

English → ItaliancareercarrieraCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

CARRĀRIAM (VIAM) (Late Latin)‘cart road (CARRUS 'cart')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

A career was first a road for carts, then a racecourse, then the course of a life. Spanish inherited it (-ARIA gives -era); French and Italian took the southern form carriera.

English relatives: car, carry, cargo, career

Sound laws at work

-ĀRIUM: -ero, -ier, -aio

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In a sentence

  • esHa tenido una carrera brillante.
  • frElle a fait une brillante carrière.
  • itHa fatto una carriera brillante.
  • ptEla teve uma carreira brilhante.
  • roA avut o carieră strălucită.
  • caHa tingut una carrera brillant.
  • enShe has had a brilliant career.

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