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Clara or Klara is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous". Various early male Christian saints were named Clarus; the feminine form became popular after the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), one of the followers of Saint Francis, who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of ...
Clara, Clair/Claire, Clarissa, Clarisse, Clarice, Clarence, Clar Clare / ˈ k l ɛər / is a given name, the Medieval English form of Clara . [ 1 ] The related name Clair was traditionally considered male, especially when spelled without an 'e', [ 2 ] but Clare and Claire are usually, but not always, female.
In Scotland, Sorcha has traditionally been Anglicised as Clara, which retains the name's Gaelic meaning: the English Clara is derived from the Latin clarus, meaning "bright", "famous". [2] The variant pronunciation of this name as / ˈ s ɔːr ʃ ə / is due to confusion by English-speakers with Saoirse / ˈ s ɜːr ʃ ə /, meaning "freedom".
Clarissa is a female given name borrowed from Latin, Italian, and Portuguese, [1] originally denoting a nun of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Clare. It is a combination of St. Clare of Assisi 's Latin name Clara (originally meaning "clear" and "bright") and the suffix -issa , equivalent to -ess .
Clara.io, an online 3D modeling, animation and rendering tool; Clara, a genus of moth; Clara, a genus of fly (now Paraclara) Clara, a genus of plant in subfamily Agavoideae; Clara (rhinoceros) (c. 1738–1758), which toured Europe for 17 years; Clara cells, former name of club cells in the lungs
Clarisse is a female given name borrowed from French, derived from the Italian and Latin name Clarissa, originally denoting a nun of the Roman Catholic Order of St. Clare.It is a combination of St. Clare of Assisi's Latin name Clara (originally meaning "clear" and "bright") and the suffix -issa, equivalent to -ess.
Telling fans what they want to know! Clara Berghaus officially signed her divorce papers in September, but she still had ex-husband Ryan Oubre‘s last name on her TikTok account — until now ...
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...