carpinus

See also: Carpinus

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”). See also carina and cerrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pi.nus/, [ˈkärpɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pi.nus/, [ˈkärpinus]

Noun

carpinus m (genitive carpinī); second declension

1. Hornbeam; European hornbeam; a variety of deciduous tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carpinus	carpinī
Genitive	carpinī	carpinōrum
Dative	carpinō	carpinīs
Accusative	carpinum	carpinōs
Ablative	carpinō	carpinīs
Vocative	carpine	carpinī

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: carpen
  • Aromanian: carpin
  • Megleno-Romanian: carpin
• Istriot:
  • carpano
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: carpino, carpine
  • Sicilian: càrpinu
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: chërpo
  • Romansch: charpin
  • Venetian: càrpano, càrpane
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: charpena
  • Old French: charme
    • ⇒ Bourguignon: charmetiau
    • French: charme
    • Lorrain: charme
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: charpre, cherpre
    • Walloon: tchåne
  • Old Northern French: carme
    • Norman: querme, carme
  • Picard Old French: carme
    • Picard: carme
      • ⇒ Spanish: carme
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: carpin
    • →? Catalan: carpí
  • Occitan:

    Gascon: carpe, carpo, carpa, caupre

    • → Spanish: carpe
    • → Portuguese: carpa

    Languedocien: calpre, carpre

    Limousin: chaupre

    Provençal: caupre

• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: carpino
  • → Translingual: Carpinus

References

• “carpinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carpinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.