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		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		carpere			carpī			carpēns			—
future		carptūrum esse			carptum īrī			carptūrus			carpendus, carpundus
perfect		carpsisse			carptum esse			—			carptus
future perfect		—			carptum fore			—			—
perfect potential		carptūrum fuisse			—			—			—
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

• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10