carrière
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French carrière, from Italian carriera.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carrière f (plural carrières, diminutive carrièretje n)
- career, a person's occupation(s)
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Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: karier
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French carriere. Borrowed from Old Occitan carreira or Italian carriera, itself from Old Occitan, from Late Latin (via) carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet charrière.
Noun edit
carrière f (plural carrières)
- (originally) racecourse
- career
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Descendants edit
- → Turkish: kariyer
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāria, from Latin quadrāre (“to make four-corned, square; cut into a square”), from quadrus. Compare carreau. Compare also English quarry.
Noun edit
carrière f (plural carrières)
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Further reading edit
- “carrière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.