Charlemagne

From Middle English Charlemagne (compare Charlemayn), from Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes, from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Karl the Great”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːɹləmeɪn/, /ˌʃɑːrləˈmeɪn/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑːləˌmeɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɑɹləˌmeɪn/

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Charlemagne

1. One of the kings of the Franks from 768 to 814, crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 until his death in 814.

   Synonyms: Charles the Great, Karl the Great

• Carolingian, Carolinian, Carlovingian

Inherited from Old French Carles li magnes, borrowed from Latin Carolus Magnus (literally “Charles/Carl the Great”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.lə.maɲ/
• Rhymes: -aɲ

Charlemagne m

1. Charlemagne (emperor)

• Charles

• → Arabic: شَارْلَمَان (šārlamān)
• → Turkish: Şarlman

From Middle French Charlemagne, from Old French Carles li magnes. Compare earlier Charlemayn.

Charlemagne

1. Charlemagne
   • 1490, William Caxton, transl., The Right Plesaunt and Goodly Historie of the Foure Sonnes of Aymon. […] (The English Charlemagne Romances; parts X, XI), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1885, page 4:

     And also that my sayd Lorde / desyreth to have other Hystories of olde tyme / passed of vertues chyvalry, reduced in lykewyse into our Englishe tongue: he late sent to me a booke in Frenche, conteynyng thactes / and faytes of warre / doone and made agaynst y^e great Emperour and king of Fraunce, Charlemagne, by y^e .iiii. sonnes of Aymon, otherwyse named in Frenche, ‘Les quatre fylz Aymon.’

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• English: Charlemagne