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語源 1

Shortened from Caroline. Associated by folk etymology with the English noun carol.

固有名詞

Carol

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the middle of the 20th century.
   • 1873, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, page 179:

     Carol is fifteen years old and I'm sixteen. Her name is really Caroline, but she hates it and wants to be called Carol - it's so much prettier.

   • 2006, Joyce Winters, Let Your Light Shine, →ISBN, page 209:

     "Holly, would you mind if I named my little girl 'Holly'? I mean, it's right around Christmas time, and I always think of holly with Christmas. I like the name Carol, too, like Christmas carol. I heard once that the name Carol means 'song of joy'".

派生語

関連する語

• Carole

語源 2

Shortened from Latin Carolus; also an Anglicization of Romanian Carol, or Polish or Slovak Karol, all cognates of the English Charles.

固有名詞

Carol

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • 1899, The English Illustrated Magazine, MacMillan and Co., item notes V.21, page 295

     This table shows the curious fact that little Prince Carol of Roumania (who is at once the great-grandson and the third cousin of Queen Victoria) has a better hereditary right to the British Throne than Her Majesty.

   • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall: Boys' Names:

     What splendid names for boys there are!
     There's Carol like a rolling car […]

参考

• Carrol
• Carroll

アナグラム

• claro, Clora, Coral, Carlo, Alcor, coral, Claro