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Carina vs Karen - What's the difference?

carina | karen |

As nouns the difference between carina and karen

is that carina is a longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat while karen is .

carina

English

Etymology 1

Named by the French astronomer in 1763. From (etyl)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
  • Derived terms
    * Carinae
    See also
    * Argo * Argo Navis * Puppis * Pyxis * Vela

    Etymology 2

    Name of a fourth century martyr, feminine of Latin carinus'', derivative of ''carus "beloved"; also a latinization of Karina and Karin (= Catherine) in northern Europe.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • occasionally used in English.
  • Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    karen

    English

    (wikipedia Karen)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) Karen.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
  • * 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
  • Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
  • * 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
  • I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.
  • Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • Anagrams

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