 Pliny the Elder, the procurator of Tarraconensis, named this Roman settlement "Carae"; the suffix "-iniana" (thus "Cariniana") was characteristic of many Roman manors.The village Cariniana signified the hamlet and manor situated in the location of Carae and refers to its owner, Carinius.At the end of the second century, a tendency to concentrate the property led to the appearance of the large latifundia whose owners gave their names to places like this.