carriera

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.

• IPA^(key): /karˈrjɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: car‧riè‧ra

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

• carrierismo
• carrierista
• di gran carriera

• carro
• carraio