Carme (name)
Encyclopedia
Carme is a feminine given name of two separate origins. The first is a Galician
and Catalan
form of Hebrew
karmel
, "garden". The second is from Greek
Karmē
, whose name means "she who cuts the grain", from keirein, "to cut".
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
and Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
form of Hebrew
Hebrew language
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
karmel
Mount Carmel
Mount Carmel ; , Kármēlos; , Kurmul or جبل مار إلياس Jabal Mar Elyas 'Mount Saint Elias') is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. Archaeologists have discovered ancient wine and oil presses at various locations on Mt. Carmel...
, "garden". The second is from Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
Karmē
Carme (mythology)
Carme, the Latinized form of Greek Karmê , was a female Cretan spirit who assisted the grain harvest of Demeter's Cretan predecessor. According to the Olympian mythology, she was the mother, by Zeus, of the virginal huntress Britomartis, also called Diktynna, whom she bore at Kaino...
, whose name means "she who cuts the grain", from keirein, "to cut".
People
- Carme Figueres i SiñolCarme Figueres i SiñolCarme Figueras i Siñol is a Catalan politician who was Minister of Social Welfare and Family Affairs in 2006.-References:...
, a Catalonian politician - Carme Laura Gil i MiróCarme Laura Gil i MiróCarme Laura Gil i Miró is a Catalan professor and politician. She was Catalonia's Minister of Education from 1999 to 2003...
, a CataloniaCataloniaCatalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
n professor - Carme PinósCarme PinósCarme Pinós is a Spanish Catalan architect.Graduated at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona in 1979. From 1982 on she formed a partnership with her husband, Enric Miralles, which ended in 1991...
, a Catalonian architect - Carme RieraCarme rieraCarme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television, and works of literary criticism...
, a Catalonian professor - Carme RuscalledaCarme RuscalledaCarme Ruscalleda i Serra is a renowned Catalan chef of the restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona. She also owns and manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.Ruscalleda was raised in a family of farmers and began cooking as a girl...
, a Catalonian chef - Carme (musician), a PeruPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
vian folk musician