The word “Freelance” is in everyday use to refer to independent professionals. Wikepedia tells us that “The etymology of the word derives from the medieval English term used for a mercenary (free: independent and lance: lance), ie, a gentleman who did not serve any particular lord, and whose services could be rented by any .
Lancers The term was coined by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) in his well-known historical romance Ivanhoe to describe a “medieval mercenary warrior.” The English phrase later transitioned to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was later officially recognized as a verb in 1903 by various authorities in etymology such as the Oxford Dictionary of English. Only in modern times has the term morphed from a noun (a freelance or a freelancer) an adverb (a journalist working freelance).
This word is used as an anglicized in Castilian as two separate words “free lance” (English) or autonomous but not applied as a verb. “