Caroline vs Katy - What's the difference?
caroline | katy |
. Borrowed in the 17th century from the (etyl) form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the (etyl) equivalent of Charles, which came from (etyl) Karl .
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Forty-Four:
A female given name, diminutive of Katherine and of its variant forms.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas (M.K.T) Railroad.
A village in Poland
A city in Texas
An unincorporated community in West Virginia
An apple cultivar from Sweden
As nouns the difference between caroline and katy
is that caroline is (historical) an old silver coin of italy while katy is an apple cultivar from sweden.As a proper noun katy is
a female given name, diminutive of katherine and of its variant forms.caroline
English
Synonyms
* CaroleanProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline'. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are ' Carolines . That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes.
- I used to love saying her name. Caroline', with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like ''crinoline'', a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But '''Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a ''girl . The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.
Anagrams
* * * * English eponyms ----katy
English
Alternative forms
* (as a female name) Catie, Caty, KatieProper noun
(en proper noun)- She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride. Song title.