Charlotte

See also charlotte

English

Etymology

From French Charlotte in the 17th century, female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʃɑrlət/ (AE, IE), IPA: /ˈʃɑːlət/ (RP, SAE), IPA: /ˈʃaːlət/ (AuE, NZE), IPA: /ˈʃarlət/ (SSE)

Proper noun

Charlotte

1. A female given name.
   • 1852 D. H. Jacques, A Chapter on Names, The Knickerbocker, or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume XL, August 1852, page 117:

     My Charlotte conquers with a smile, / And reigneth queen of love.

     In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.

   • 1859 George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter VII:

     "Here's Totty! By-and-by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty." "Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of name. Charlotte's her christened name. It's a name i' Mr. Poyser's family; his grandmother was named Charlotte. But we began calling her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty. To be sure it's more like a name for a dog than a Christian child."

   • 2007 Sophie Hannah, Hurting Distance, Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9780340 937907, page 225:

     'Can I call you Charlotte?'

     'No. I hate the name, makes me sound like a Victorian aunt. I'm Charlie, and no, you can't call me that either.'

2. The largest city in the state of North Carolina.

Translations

female given name

• Arabic: شارلوت (ar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏洛特 (cmn) (Xiàluòtè)

• Czech: Šarlota (cs)
• Danish: Charlotte (da)
• Finnish: Lotta (fi)
• French: Charlotte (fr)
• German: Charlotte (de)
• Greenlandic: Sialoorta (kl)
• Hawaiian: Halaki

• Hungarian: Sarolta (hu)
• Icelandic: Charlotta (is), Karlotta (is), Lotta (is)
• Japanese: シャーロット (ja) (shārotto)
• Latvian: Šarlote (lv) f
• Marathi: शार्लट (mr) (śārlaṭa) f
• Norwegian: Charlotte (no)
• Polish: Szarlota (pl)
• Portuguese: Carlota (pt)
• Spanish: Carlota (es)
• Swedish: Charlotta (sv)

Noun

Charlotte (plural Charlottes)

1. (historical) Designating a type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
   • 1764, The Scots Magazine, Sep 1764:

     The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.

   • 1819, La Belle Assemblée, Apr 1819:

     the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther, was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.

   • 1968, Gisèle d'Assailly, Ages of Elegance:

     Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.

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Danish

Etymology

From French Charlotte.

Proper noun

Charlotte

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Lotte
• Liselotte

References

• [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 33 806 females with the given name Charlotte have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃaʁ.lɔt/

Proper noun

Charlotte f

1. A female given name; a feminine diminutive form of Charles.

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German

Proper noun

Charlotte

1. A female given name of French origin. Variants: Lotte, Lieselotte, Liselotte.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Charlotte

1. A female given name of French origin. Diminutive: Lotte.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Charlotte

1. A female given name of French origin.

Related terms

• Charlotta, Lotta