carpo
See also: Carpo, carpo-, and -carpo
Aromanian
Etymology
From Greek καρπός (karpós).
Noun
carpo m
- fruit
- harvest
Synonyms
- poamã
- frut / fructu
Galician
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- (anatomy) carpus (entire wrist)
- (anatomy) carpal (any bone of the wrist)
Related terms
- metacarpo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkar.po/
- Rhymes: -arpo
- Hyphenation: càr‧po
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).
Noun
carpo m (plural carpi)
- (anatomy) carpus
Related terms
- carpale
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
- capro, copra, parco, parcò, porca
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *karpō, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.
Compare Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), English harvest, sharp, shear.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.poː/, [ˈkärpoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.po/, [ˈkärpo]
Verb
carpō (present infinitive carpere, perfect active carpsī, supine carptum); third conjugation
- (literally) I 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.
- May he fear the ponds, and may he not pick flowers from the trees,
- Stāgna tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flōrēs,
- I 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.
- […] and she tore off her hair and her cheeks,
- […] crīnemque genāsque
- 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.
- The parent's eyes are more intensely punished
- Oculī parentis pūnientur ācrius
- (textiles) I spin
- c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.334–335:
- […] Mīlēsia vellera nymphae
carpēbant […]- […] the nymphs were spinning
Milesian wool […]
- […] the nymphs were spinning
- […] Mīlēsia vellera nymphae
- I 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.
- Be wise, make wine, and in a short time,
- Sapiās, vīna liquēs, et spatiō brevī
- 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.
- Here and now, in a high floor, Turnus
- Tēctīs hīc Turnus in altīs
- c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.48:
- Carpere sēcūrās quis iam iubet Aesona noctēs?
- Who is now telling Aeson to enjoy his peaceful nights?
- Carpere sēcūrās quis iam iubet Aesona noctēs?
- I 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?
- But maidens like to chide you with feigned complaint.
- At lubet innūptīs fīctō tē carpere questū.
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, 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.
- Paulum, cui ipsī quoque sē conparāre ērubuissent, obtrectātiō carpsit.
- 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.
- Don't ever criticize what someone says or does,
- Alterius dictum aut factum nē carpseris umquam,
- (military) I 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.
- Relinquēbātur Caesarī nihil, nisi utī equitātū agmen adversāriōrum male habēret et carperet.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of carpō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | carpō | carpis | carpit | carpimus | carpitis | carpunt |
| imperfect | carpēbam | carpēbās | carpēbat | carpēbāmus | carpēbātis | carpēbant | |
| future | carpam | carpēs | carpet | carpēmus | carpētis | carpent | |
| perfect | carpsī | carpsistī | carpsit | carpsimus | carpsistis | carpsērunt, carpsēre | |
| pluperfect | carpseram | carpserās | carpserat | carpserāmus | carpserātis | carpserant | |
| future perfect | carpserō | carpseris | carpserit | carpserimus | carpseritis | carpserint | |
| passive | present | carpor | carperis, carpere | carpitur | carpimur | carpiminī | carpuntur |
| imperfect | carpēbar | carpēbāris, carpēbāre | carpēbātur | carpēbāmur | carpēbāminī | carpēbantur | |
| future | carpar | carpēris, carpēre | carpētur | carpēmur | carpēminī | carpentur | |
| perfect | carptus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | carptus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | carptus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | carpam | carpās | carpat | carpāmus | carpātis | carpant |
| imperfect | carperem | carperēs | carperet | carperēmus | carperētis | carperent | |
| perfect | carpserim | carpserīs | carpserit | carpserīmus | carpserītis | carpserint | |
| pluperfect | carpsissem | carpsissēs | carpsisset | carpsissēmus | carpsissētis | carpsissent | |
| passive | present | carpar | carpāris, carpāre | carpātur | carpāmur | carpāminī | carpantur |
| imperfect | carperer | carperēris, carperēre | carperētur | carperēmur | carperēminī | carperentur | |
| perfect | carptus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | carptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | carpe | — | — | carpite | — |
| future | — | carpitō | carpitō | — | carpitōte | carpuntō | |
| passive | present | — | carpere | — | — | carpiminī | — |
| future | — | carpitor | carpitor | — | — | carpuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | carpere | carpsisse | carptūrum esse | carpī | carptum esse | carptum īrī | |
| participles | carpēns | — | carptūrus | — | carptus | carpendus, carpundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| carpendī | carpendō | carpendum | carpendō | carptum | carptū | ||
Derived terms
- carpe diem
- carptim
- carptor
- carptūra
- carptus
- Carpus
- concerpō
- dēcerpō
- discerpō
- excerpō
- praecerpō
Related terms
- concerptus
- dēcermina
- dēcerptiō
- dēcerptor
- dēcerptus
- discerptim
- discerptiō
- excerptim
- excerptiō
- excerptōrius
- excerptum
- excerptus
- praecerptus
Descendants
- Catalan: carpir-se
- English: excerpt
- Galician: carpir
- Italian: carpare, carpire
- Old French: charpir, carpir
- Old Portuguese: carpir
- Portuguese: carpir
- Spanish: carpir
References
- “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
- to harass the rear: novissimos carpere
- “carpo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.pu/ [ˈkah.pu]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.pu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈkaʁ.pu/ [ˈkaχ.pu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkaɻ.po/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkaɾ.pu/
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- (anatomy) carpus
- wrist
- Synonyms: punho, pulso
Meronyms
- (carpus): capitato, escafoide, hamato, osso piramidal, osso pisiforme, osso semilunar, trapézio, trapezoide
Related terms
- carpal
- mão
- metacarpo
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɾpo/ [ˈkaɾ.po]
- Rhymes: -aɾpo
- Syllabification: car‧po
Noun
carpo m (plural carpos)
- carpus
- (anatomy) wrist
- Synonym: muñeca
Related terms
- carpiano
- metacarpo
Verb
carpo
- first-person singular present indicative of carpir
Further reading
- “carpo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014