Carina vs Karen - What's the difference?
carina | karen |
(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.
. 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"):
* 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
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)Derived terms
* CarinaeSee also
* Argo * Argo Navis * Puppis * Pyxis * VelaEtymology 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.Anagrams
* * * * * ----karen
English
(wikipedia Karen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) Karen.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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!
- 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) .External links
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages