carretera
/kareˈteɾa/ · A2 · noun · f
road
🛣️ carro + -etera: the carro road, where carts and cars travel
From carreta (cart), itself from carro (cart, car), plus the suffix -era for a place tied to something. A carretera was the way built for carts. English car and cart share the same Latin root, carrus.