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Carlo

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɑːləʊ//
  • United States//ˈkɑɹloʊ//

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Charles.

    Charles, come here and be presented to your cousin, Mabel Earnshaw. His name is Carlo, but I couldn't possibly call him by it; it sounds so like a dog. At least, pronounced in my English fashion. And I can't roll my r's.

Etymology

From Italian Carlo, from Latin Carolus, from Germanic. Doublet of Charles, Carl, and Carlos.

Forms

plural
Carlos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).