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Aromanian
Etymology
From Greek καρπός (karpós).
Noun
carpo m
- fruit
- harvest
Synonyms
Galician
Etymology 1
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- (anatomy) carpus (entire wrist)
- (anatomy) carpal (any bone of the wrist)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
carpo
- first-person singular present indicative of carpir
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).
Noun
carpo m (plural carpi)
- (anatomy) carpus
Related terms
Further reading
- carpo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
carpo
- first-person singular present indicative of carpare
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *karpō, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.
Compare Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), English harvest, sharp, shear.
Verb
carpō (present infinitive carpere, perfect active carpsī, supine carptum); third conjugation
- (literally) to pluck, pick, harvest
8 CE,
Ovid,
Metamorphoses 9.380–381:
- Stāgna tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flōrēs,
et fruticēs omnēs corpus putet esse deārum.- May he fear the ponds, and may he not pick flowers from the trees,
and may he think all trees to be bodies of goddesses.
- to tear off, tear out, rend, separate a whole into single parts, to cut to pieces, divide
- Synonyms: discindō, scindō, findō, discerpō, distineō, discīdō, incīdō, intercīdō, distrahō
- Antonyms: cōgō, congerō, coniungō, contrahō
c. 90 CE,
Valerius Flaccus,
Argonautica 8.7–8:
- crīnemque genāsque
aegra per antīquī carpsit vestīgia somnī.- and she tore off her hair and her cheeks,
sorrowful, amid the traces of her previous sleep.
- c. 400 CE, Prudentius, Liber Peristephanon 10.694–695:
- Oculī parentis pūnientur ācrius
quam sī cruentae membra carpant ungulae.
- The parent's eyes are more intensely punished
than if bloody nails were to tear at her limbs.
- (textiles) to spin
- to make good use of, enjoy something (usually a period of time)
23 BCE – 13 BCE,
Horace,
Odes 1.11.6–8:
- Sapiās, vīna liquēs, et spatiō brevī
spem longam resecēs. Dum loquimur, fūgerit invida
aetās: carpe diem, quam minimum crēdula posterō.- Be wise, make wine, and in a short time,
lose any great hope. As we speak, time is cruelly fleeing away.
Enjoy the day, believing the least in the future.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 7.413–414:
- Tēctīs hīc Turnus in altīs
iam mediam nigrā carpēbat nocte quiētem.- Here and now, in a high floor, Turnus
was enjoying his rest in the middle of the dark night.
- (figuratively) of the effect of plucking: to tear or wear away or apart, pull to pieces, consume, waste
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.1-2:
- At rēgīna, gravī iamdūdum saucia cūrā,
volnus alit vēnīs, et caecō carpitur ignī.- But the queen, long since troubled by her deep anxiety, nurtures wound with her life-blood, and is being consumed by a hidden fire.
(In other words, Dido feels the intense emotion and physical sensations of falling in love.)
- to revile, criticize, slander, carp at
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 62:
- At lubet innūptīs fīctō tē carpere questū.
Quid tum, sī carpunt, tacitā quem mente requīrunt?- But maidens like to chide you with feigned complaint.
What then, if they chide him whom in their secret heart they desire?
59 BC–AD 17,
Titus Livius,
Ab urbe condita libri 45.35.5:
- Paulum, cui ipsī quoque sē conparāre ērubuissent, obtrectātiō carpsit.
- Criticism reviled Paulus, a man that people would have blushed to compare themselves to.
- 3rd or 4th C. CE, Pseudo-Cato, Disticha Catonis 3.7:
Alterius dictum aut factum nē carpseris umquam,
exemplō similī nē tē dērīdeat alter.- Don't ever criticize what someone says or does,
lest another laugh at you when you do something similar.
- (military) to weaken, harass an enemy
c. 48 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.63:
- Relinquēbātur Caesarī nihil, nisi utī equitātū agmen adversāriōrum male habēret et carperet.
- No option remained to Cesar, other than annoying and harassing the enemy army with the cavalry.
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Descendants
Further reading
- “carpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carpo 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)
- carpo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to harass the rear: novissimos carpere
- “carpo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
carpō
- dative/ablative singular of carpus
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- (anatomy) carpus
- wrist
- Synonyms: punho, pulso
Meronyms
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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɾpo/
- Rhymes: -aɾpo
- Syllabification: car‧po
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- carpus
- (anatomy) wrist
- Synonym: muñeca
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
carpo
- first-person singular present indicative of carpir
Further reading