Carolina

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Etymology: From Latin Carolus (“Charles”) + -ina (feminine diminutive suffix). The U.S. states are named for Charles I of England.

1. A female given name from Latin, Latinate form of Caroline; rare in English.
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   “I drove all the way from Florida to Carolina.”

   “These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.”

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10. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.