Charlemagne
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English
Etymology
From Middle English Charlemagne (compare Charlemayn), from Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes, from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Karl the Great”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɑːɹləmeɪn/, /ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʃɑːləˌmeɪn/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈʃɑɹləˌmeɪn/
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Proper noun
Charlemagne
- One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.
- Synonyms: Charles the Great, Karl the Great
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Translations
king of the Franks
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French Carles li magnes, borrowed from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Carl the Great”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Charlemagne m
- Charlemagne (emperor)
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Middle English
Etymology
From Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes. Compare earlier Charlemayn.
Proper noun
Charlemagne
- Charlemagne
- 1490, William Caxton, transl., The Right Plesaunt and Goodly Historie of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon. (The English Charlemagne Romances; parts X, XI), London: or the Early English Text Society by N Trübner & Co., , published 1885, page 4:
- And also that my sayd Lorde / desyreth to have other Hystories of olde tyme / passed of vertues chyvalry, reduced in lykewyse into our Englishe tongue: he late sent to me a booke in Frenche, conteynyng thactes / and faytes of warre / doone and made agaynst ye great Emperour and king of Fraunce, Charlemagne, by ye .iiii. sonnes of Aymon, otherwyse named in Frenche, ‘Les quatre fylz Aymon.’
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Descendants
- English: Charlemagne