Career

This word derives from the Latin carrus meaning a wheeled vehicle or a chariot, and we get the word ‘carriage’ and its abbreviation ‘car’ from the same source. The first usage of the word career is recorded from the early 16th century when it meant a road or a racecourse. As a verb, career, meaning to move along at a fast pace is first recorded from the mid-17th century. Thereafter, career meaning the course or progress of one’s profession only came later, from the late 18th/early 19th century.