Etymology

Quotations

• 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:

  But the fashion spreads deeper and wider; the village is infected and the village green; Amelias and Claras sweep your rooms and cook your dinners, gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline.

• 1956 Tad Mosel: Other People's Houses. Six Television Plays. page 123:

  My mother called me Clara. And everybody else called me Clara until I was fourteen years old. Then I got sick of it. Clara! Sounds like breaking glass. Did you ever stop to think of that, Frank? Say it fast and hit the C.

Proper noun

1. , a latinate variant of Claire.

Proper noun

1. , equivalent to English Clara.

Proper noun

1. , a less common spelling of Klara.