Clarice
f.
Latin claricia 'a shining, gleaming, glowing'.
The name of the wife of Lorenzo dei Medici.
- Belgium
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- Middle Dutch
- ● 1336 Clarissien (dat) RSG1336-39 p. 15
- Brabant
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- Latin
- ● 1312 Clarissia (nom) JeanIII p. 27
- England
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- Latin
- ● 1189 Claricia (nom) GASurv p. 165,
Clariz (gen) ibid. p. 131;
1296 Claricie (gen) RCS-1 p. 95a;
1300 Clarice (nom) ProcSuf-vol3 p. 233;
1340xc1450 Claricia (nom) CovGuild-1 p. 32,
Clarissa (nom) ibid. p. 67;
1379 Claricia (nom) WRYPT1 p. 17;
1381 Claricia (nom) Suffolk1381 p. 68,
Claryssia (nom) ibid. p. 82
- Early Modern English
- ● 1574 Claris COmar-vol2 p. 70
- Walloon
- ● 1582/3 Clarisse RWC p. 6;
1583 Clarisse ibid. p. 6;
1592 Claris ibid. p. 22
- France
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- Latin
- ● 1271 Claricia (nom) NDParisII 1-XIX,
Claricie (gen) ibid. 1-XIX;
1301 Claricia (nom) MemPic-vol17 p. 217
- Old French
- ● 1301 Clarisse (nom) MemPic-vol17 p. 233;
1313 Clarice Paris1313 p. 39
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Clarice". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2021, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2021/1/name/Clarice.