Miles de Soles

Carmela

Carmen is a given name with two different origins. Its first root is Spanish and is used as a nickname for Carmel, from Hebrew karmel ("God's vineyard"), which is the name of a mountain range in northern Israel. The second origin is from Latin carmen, which means "ode" or "poem" ("Patrium Carmen": ode to the fatherland) and is also the root of the English word "charm". The name of the Roman goddess Carmenta based on this root comes from the purely Latin origin, as is the fragment of archaic Latin known as "Carmen Saliare". The name is generally female: in Spanish (Carmen), Portuguese (Carmo), Catalan (Carme), French and Romanian (Carmen). In American English the name is considered unisex. In Italian the variant Carmine is male. more »