carraria

Latin

Etymology

Ellipsis of via carrāria (“cart-path”). Documented from 804.

Noun

carrāria f (genitive carrāriae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. a wide road for vehicles; a path for carts ; the descendants have the meaning ”path, footpath”

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carrāria	carrāriae
genitive	carrāriae	carrāriārum
dative	carrāriae	carrāriīs
accusative	carrāriam	carrāriās
ablative	carrāriā	carrāriīs
vocative	carrāria	carrāriae

Descendants

• → Albanian: karrarë
• Aromanian: cãrari, cãrare
• Asturian: carrera
• Bourguignon: charreire
• Catalan: carrera
• → German: Karriere (through French)
• → English: career (through French)
• French: carrière (through Old Occitan), charrière
• Italian: carraia, carriera (through Old Occitan)
• → Dutch: carrière (through French)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: karriere (through French)
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: karriere (through French)
• Occitan: carrièra
• Old Galician-Portuguese: carreira, carreyra
  • Fala: carreira
  • Galician: carreira
  • Portuguese: carreira
• Romanian: cărare
• Spanish: carrera, carra-

References

• carraria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)