Carmela
[kɑrˈmɛlə]Meaning
Italian, Spanish and Galician form of Carmel
Background Story
In Galician it is formed from Carme with the diminutive suffix -ela, and Cebuano borrowed the name from Spanish, which had taken it from Galician. Related forms include Carmen, Carmina and Carmenza, with Carmelina and Carmelita as diminutives and Carmelo as the masculine form. Carmela is also recorded as a given name in Catalan, Croatian, English, Estonian, French, German, Portuguese, Romanian and Slovene.
Temperament
Variations
Carmel, Carmen
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