Breton origin
Source-reportedBorrowed from Breton Karadeg.
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- Wiktionary: CaradocCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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Breton roots
/ka.ʁa.dɔk/ · French
01 / Meaning & origin
Caradoc is a masculine given name documented in French and Welsh. English Wiktionary traces it to Breton Karadeg.
Borrowed from Breton Karadeg.
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04 / Through time
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Caradoc— “beloved”
Caradwg’s own proper name comes from the same root as the Greek χάρις, grace, and the Latin _carus_, dear. It means beloved, and has the Breton form Keridak. Caer Caradoc, in Shropshire, retains the name of his camp. He had a worthy namesake in Caradawc Vreichfras, or strong armed, called the pillar of the Kymry, and one of the three battle knights of Britain. Vreichfras means the strong arm, but the French trouveurs rendered it Brise-bras, the wasted arm; and told of an…
Caradwg’s own proper name comes from the same root as the Greek χάρις, grace, and the Latin _carus_, dear. It means beloved, and has the Breton form Keridak. Caer Caradoc, in Shropshire, retains the name of his camp. He had a worthy namesake in Caradawc Vreichfras, or strong armed, called the pillar of the Kymry, and one of the three battle knights of Britain. Vreichfras means the strong arm, but the French trouveurs rendered it Brise-bras, the wasted arm; and told of an enchanter who fixed a serpent on the knight’s arm, from whose torture nothing could relieve him but that she whom he loved best should undergo it in his stead. His faithful wife offered herself; the serpent was just about to seize on her, when her brother smote off its head with his sword; but her husband thus never recovered the strength of his arm! Others, however, read Vreich-fras as _Fer-a-bras_, iron arm; and thus, perhaps, from some Breton romance, was one of the Hauteville brothers called William Ferabras.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part V, Chapter II (Ancient Keltic Names), Section III (Bri) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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5th-6th century Celtic king in South Wales or Brittany
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06 / Behind the facts
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