The story
- Latin · borrowed fromRobur Carolinum“the Caroline or Charles oak”
- English todayRobur Carolinum
From Latin Robur Carolinum (“the Caroline or Charles oak”) in Edmund Halley's 1679 Catalogus Stellarum Australium, named for the Royal Oak in Boscobel Wood where Charles Stuart (later Charles II of England) hid from the victorious troops of Oliver Cromwell after the 1651 Battle of Worcester during the War of the Three Kingdoms.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.