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Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from an old Teutonic source, cognate with English carp. Used later by Linnaeus.
Pronunciation
Noun
carpiō m (genitive carpiōnis); third declension
- (Medieval Latin) carp
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- carpio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “carpio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “carpio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill