career
English
/kəˈɹɪɹ/, /kəˈɹɪə/
noun
Definitions
- One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
- General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
- (archaic) Speed.
- A jouster's path during a joust.
- (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
- (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
- (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
Etymology
Derived from French carrière (a road racecourse) derived from Italian carriera derived from Latin carrāria, carrus (wagon, four-wheeled baggage wagon, a car, cart, four-wheeled baggage cart, wheeled vehicle) derived from Middle French carriere derived from Latin carrāria.
Origin
Latin
carrāria
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- careering English
- careeringly English
- careerism English
- careerist English
- careerless English
- careerlessness English
- careerlike English
- careerlong English
- careerman English
- careership English
- careerwise English
- careerwoman English
- carrus English
- man English
- midcareer English
- noncareer English
- noncareerist English
- postcareer English
- woman English
- (caminus) Latin
- (via) Latin
- (via) carrāria Latin
- *carriāre Latin
- autocarrus Latin
- carrago Latin
- carraria Latin
- carricare Latin
- carrico Latin
- carricāre Latin
- carricāre, carrico Latin
- carricō Latin
- carrus Latin
- carrāria Latin
- carrārius Latin
- discarricāre Latin
- discarricō Latin
- Karriere German
- carosello Italian
- carretta Italian
- carriera Italian
- carrierista Italian
- carrieristico Italian
- carro Italian
- carrozza Italian
- carrière Dutch, Flemish
- carrière French
- carriériste French
- карьер Russian
- карьера Russian
- carro Spanish, Castilian
- κάρρον Ancient Greek
- *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European
- キャリア Japanese
- キャリアウーマン Japanese
- kerra Old Norse
- cariage Old French
- carier Old French
- char Old French
- chariot Old French
- carro Catalan, Valencian
- car Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- căra Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- καριέρα Greek (modern)
- carre Middle Dutch
- karra Old High German
- կառք Old Armenian
- kariyer Turkish
- karier Malay
- karre Middle High German
- kerr Albanian
- qerre Albanian
- carriere Middle French
- carro Old Portuguese
- *karros Proto-Celtic
- car Aromanian
- cariatge Occitan
- carrejar Occitan
- carro Occitan
- kärra Old Swedish
- carru Asturian
- career Scots
- carreira Old Occitan
- carro Old Spanish
- carier xno
- *karros Gaulish
- carros Gaulish
- karros Gaulish
- carrià Neapolitan