carpentum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /karˈpen.tum/, [kärˈpɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈpen.tum/, [kärˈpɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

carpentum n (genitive carpentī); second declension

1. carriage (two-wheeled); chariot

   Synonyms: currus, vehiculum

2. wagon, cart
3. barouche

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carpentum	carpenta
Genitive	carpentī	carpentōrum
Dative	carpentō	carpentīs
Accusative	carpentum	carpenta
Ablative	carpentō	carpentīs
Vocative	carpentum	carpenta

Derived terms

• carpentārius

Descendants

• Italian: carpento
• Old French: charpent
  • French: charpente
• Portuguese: carpento

References

• “carpentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “carpentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carpentum 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)
• carpentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “carpentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “carpentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin