"Carfrae" meaning in English

See Carfrae in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Probably from Cumbric *cair (“fort”) + Cumbric *bre (“height”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xcb|*cair||fort}} Cumbric *cair (“fort”), {{der|en|xcb|*bre||height}} Cumbric *bre (“height”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Carfrae
  1. A castle in Lauder parish, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, formerly in Berwickshire. Categories (place): Places in Scotland, Places in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
    Sense id: en-Carfrae-en-name-3UeizzRX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12
  2. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Carfrae-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames

Download JSON data for Carfrae meaning in English (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xcb",
        "3": "*cair",
        "4": "",
        "5": "fort"
      },
      "expansion": "Cumbric *cair (“fort”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xcb",
        "3": "*bre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "height"
      },
      "expansion": "Cumbric *bre (“height”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Cumbric *cair (“fort”) + Cumbric *bre (“height”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Carfrae",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in Scotland",
          "orig": "en:Places in Scotland",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places in the Scottish Borders, Scotland",
          "orig": "en:Places in the Scottish Borders, Scotland",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A castle in Lauder parish, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, formerly in Berwickshire."
      ],
      "id": "en-Carfrae-en-name-3UeizzRX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Lauder",
          "Lauder#English"
        ],
        [
          "Scottish Borders",
          "Scottish Borders#English"
        ],
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English"
        ],
        [
          "Berwickshire",
          "Berwickshire"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Carfrae-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Mirinda Carfrae",
    "Robert Carfrae",
    "Tristram Carfrae"
  ],
  "word": "Carfrae"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English terms derived from Cumbric",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xcb",
        "3": "*cair",
        "4": "",
        "5": "fort"
      },
      "expansion": "Cumbric *cair (“fort”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xcb",
        "3": "*bre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "height"
      },
      "expansion": "Cumbric *bre (“height”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Cumbric *cair (“fort”) + Cumbric *bre (“height”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Carfrae",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Places in Scotland",
        "en:Places in the Scottish Borders, Scotland"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A castle in Lauder parish, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, formerly in Berwickshire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Lauder",
          "Lauder#English"
        ],
        [
          "Scottish Borders",
          "Scottish Borders#English"
        ],
        [
          "Scotland",
          "Scotland#English"
        ],
        [
          "Berwickshire",
          "Berwickshire"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Mirinda Carfrae",
    "Robert Carfrae",
    "Tristram Carfrae"
  ],
  "word": "Carfrae"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.