Caroling

See also: caroling

English

Alternative forms

• Carling, Karling, Karoling

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der.

Proto-Germanic *karaz

Proto-Germanic *karilaz

Proto-West Germanic *karil

Proto-Germanic *-ingaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ing

Medieval Latin Carolingusbor.

English Caroling

From Medieval Latin Carolingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing. By surface analysis, Carolus +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkærəlɪŋ/

Noun

Caroling (plural Carolings)

1. A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian.
   • 1878, James Cotter Morison, Gibbon, London, page 163:

     The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […]

   • 1879, Encyclopædia Britannica, page 535:

     The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love for France; […]

   • 1881, G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Oxford, page 112:

     It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone.

   • 1902, Arthur Hassall, A Handbook of European History 476–1871, page 13:

     THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS

   • 1903, T. F. Tout, The Empire and the Papacy, 918–1273‎, page 72:

     The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become national; and if he looked back, like the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order, he had no temptation to look back, as the Carolings were bound to look back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion.

   • 1912, C. R. L. Fletcher, The Making of Western Europe‎, page 320:

     His deposition was followed by one year's reign of Robert I. (see Table 1), and then of Raoul, 923-936, a distant connection of the Carolings.

   • 1926, Douglas William Lowis, The History of the Church in France, A.D. 950–1000‎, page 28:

     But one reason for the change can be found in the fact that, through the surrender of regalian rights, the Carolings had become a family without land in a society where landed possessions gave power.

Derived terms

• Carolingian
• Carolingianist

Translations

descendant of Charles Martel — see also Carolingian

French: Carolinge m Middle French: Carlinge m Latin: Carolingus m Middle High German: Kärling m

See also

• Arnulfing
• Liudolfing
• Luitpolding
• Meroving