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.

Case	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
• English: career (through French)
• French: carrière (through Old Occitan), charrière
• Galician: carreira
• Italian: carraia, carriera (through Old Occitan)
• Occitan: carrièra
• 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)