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Carmen is a feminine given name in the Spanish language. It has two different origins, with its first root used as a nickname for Carmel, from Hebrew karmel meaning "vineyard of God", [ 2 ] which is the name of a mountain range in the Middle East .
The "garden" origin is from Hebrew karmel; the "harvester" origin is from Greek Karmē; the two origins are unrelated Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a Galician and Catalan form of Hebrew karmel , "garden".
Carmine is a male given name of Italian origins. It also has the meaning "purplish-red" from an Aramaic word qirmizī which means “crimson” in English. Notable people with the name include: Carmine Abate (born 1954), Italian writer; Carmine Abbagnale (born 1962), Italian competition rower; Carmine Agnello (born 1960), American alleged mobster
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.
The verses of the Carmen Saliare were each chanted three times, as the Leaping Priests of Mars danced in threefold measure. W. Warde Fowler , who on the whole is not inclined to identify spell and prayer, writes in The Religious Experience of the Roman People (1911) that the verses "seem certainly to belong rather to the region of magic than of ...
Carmelita is a feminine given name in Spanish, Filipino and English. Notable people with this name include: Carmelita Abalos (born 1962), Filipino politician; Carmelita Abdurahman, Filipino academic in the field of linguistics; Carmelita Correa (born 1988), Mexican track and field athlete
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's , will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology.
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper.