Carolina的词源
英文词源
- Carolina
- 1663, North American colony named for King Charles II (the Latin form of the male proper name is Carolus). Earlier French colonists called the region Caroline (1564) in honor of Charles IX, King of France. A 1629 grant here by Charles I of England was named Carolana. The original site of the name is modern South Carolina and the tract originally included North Carolina and Georgia; North Carolina first used 1691, in reference to settlements made from Virginia. The official pision into north and south dates from 1710. Used generically in forming species names in botany and zoology from 1734.
中文词源
Carolina是17世纪初，殖民者根据英国查理一世国王的名字Charles的拉丁文写法Carlus，结合英文习惯改写而来的。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：Carolina 词源，Carolina 含义。
