Dictionary

Caroling en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkærəlɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *karaz Proto-Germanic *karilaz Proto-West Germanic *karil Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ing Medieval Latin Carolingusbor. English Caroling From Medieval Latin Carolingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carolus + -ing.

Meanings

1. A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.
   • The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love for France; […] 1879, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 535:
   • The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become national; and if he looked back, like the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order, he had no temptation to look back, as the Carolings were bound to look back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion. 1903, T. F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918–1273, page 72:
   • THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS 1902, Arthur Hassall, A Handbook of European History 476–1871, page 13:
   • But one reason for the change can be found in the fact that, through the surrender of regalian rights, the Carolings had become a family without land in a society where landed possessions gave power. 1926, Douglas William Lowis, The History of the Church in France, A.D. 950–1000, page 28:
   • His deposition was followed by one year's reign of Robert I. (see Table 1), and then of Raoul, 923-936, a distant connection of the Carolings. 1912, C. R. L. Fletcher, The Making of Western Europe, page 320:
   • It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone. 1881, G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Oxford, page 112:
   • The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […] 1878, James Cotter Morison, Gibbon, London, page 163:

Forms

Deriveds

Carolingianist · Carolingian

Relateds

Arnulfing · Luitpolding · Meroving · Liudolfing

Translations (5)

la Carolingus (descendant of Charles Martel) · gmh Kärling (descendant of Charles Martel) · fr Carolinge (descendant of Charles Martel) · frm Carlinge (descendant of Charles Martel) · pl Karoling (descendant of Charles Martel)