carrière

carrière is feminine in French.

racecourse; career

Inherited from Middle French carriere. Borrowed from Old Occitan carreira or Italian carriera, itself from Old Occitan, from Late Latin (via) carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet charrière.

carrière is feminine in French.

quarry

Inherited from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāria, from Latin quadrāre (“to make four-corned, square; cut into a square”), from quadrus. Compare carreau. Compare also English quarry.