Etymology

Cara

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Today it means: A female given name originating as a coinage. Full definition →

Italian cara ← Irish cara
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromcara“friend”
  2. Italian · derived fromcara“dear”
  3. English todayCara

20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.