carriera

See also: carrièra

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan carreira or its variants (compare modern Occitan carrièra, also French carrière), from Late Latin carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet carraia, now archaic.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /karˈrjɛ.ra/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Hyphenation: car‧riè‧ra

Noun

carriera f (plural carriere)

  1. career
  2. the fastest gait (both senses)
    mi passò accanto di gran carriera
    he passed me by in a fast gait

Derived terms
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