Christine vs Caroline - What's the difference?
christine | caroline |
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* 1913 Ethel May Dell: The Rocks of Valpré . BiblioBazaar, LLC 2007. ISBN 1426470819 page 36:
. 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:
As a proper noun christine
is .As a noun caroline is
(historical) an old silver coin of italy.christine
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Chris?" he repeated after her very softly, his eyes upon her, tenderly indulgent. "Ah! let it be Christine . I may call you that?"
- "My actual name is Christina, but that's a detail. You can call me Christine if you like it best."
Usage notes
* Popular in the 20th century in the Anglo-Saxon world.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.