carpo

See also: Carpo, carpo-, and -carpo

Aromanian

Etymology

From Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

carpo m

1. fruit
2. harvest

Synonyms

• poamã
• frut / fructu

Galician

Etymology 1

Noun

carpo m (plural carpos)

1. (anatomy) carpus (entire wrist)
2. (anatomy) carpal (any bone of the wrist)

Related terms

• metacarpo

Etymology 2

Verb

carpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.po/
• Rhymes: -arpo
• Hyphenation: càr‧po

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

carpo m (plural carpi)

1. (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

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpare

Anagrams

• capro, copra, parco, parcò, porca

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.poː/, [ˈkärpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.po/, [ˈkärpo]

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

1. (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.

2. 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.

3. (textiles) to spin
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.334–335:

     […] Mīlēsia vellera nymphae
     carpēbant […]

     […] the nymphs were spinning
     Milesian wool […]

4. 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.

   • 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?

5. (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 [love’s] 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.)

6. 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.

7. (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.

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

Descendants of carpo

• Catalan: carpir-se
• English: excerpt
• Galician: carpir
• Italian: carpare, carpire
• Old French: charpir, carpir
  • French: charpir
• Old Galician-Portuguese: carpir
• Portuguese: carpir
• Spanish: carpir

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to harass the rear: novissimos carpere
    
• “carpo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

carpō

1. dative/ablative singular of carpus

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.pu/ [ˈkah.pu]

• (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)

1. (anatomy) carpus
2. wrist

   Synonyms: punho, pulso

Meronyms

• (carpus): capitato, escafoide, hamato, osso piramidal, osso pisiforme, osso semilunar, trapézio, trapezoide

Related terms

• carpal
• mão
• metacarpo

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾpo/ [ˈkaɾ.po]
• Rhymes: -aɾpo
• Syllabification: car‧po

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Noun

carpo m (plural carpos)

1. carpus
2. (anatomy) wrist

   Synonym: muñeca

Related terms

• carpiano
• metacarpo

 

Etymology 2

Verb

carpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

Further reading

• “carpo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014