carpa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "carpa"

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈkar.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaɾ.pa]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈkar.pa]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

Noun

carpa f (plural carpes)

1. carp (fish)

Derived terms

• carpí

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish carpa.

Noun

carpa f (plural carpes)

1. large tent

Further reading

• “carpa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “carpa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “carpa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Galician

Verb

carpa

1. inflection of carpir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

carpa (plural carpas)

1. wrist

Related terms

• carpal

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pa/
• Rhymes: -arpa
• Hyphenation: càr‧pa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

Noun

carpa f (plural carpe)

1. carp (fish)

   Synonym: reina

Descendants

• → Ladin: carpa
• → Romansh: carpa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

carpa

1. inflection of carpare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• capra, parca

Latin

Etymology

Unattested in Late Latin, from an unattested Germanic source (possibly Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa)). Surmised only from Old French carpe, Italian carpa. Compare Old High German karpho (from which German Karpfen).

Suggestions as to the further origin of the supposed Gothic word are speculative. It has been compared with Sanskrit शफर (śaphara), Welsh carp, Lithuanian šapalas. However, the un-shifted Germanic k suggests that the word entered Indo-European languages through Germanic and is ultimately from a non-Indo-European substrate native to the Alpine region and Danube basin.

Noun

carpa f (genitive carpae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) a carp (fish)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carpa	carpae
genitive	carpae	carpārum
dative	carpae	carpīs
accusative	carpam	carpās
ablative	carpā	carpīs
vocative	carpa	carpae

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: gràpa, gràpu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: carpa
  • Italian: carpa (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: carpa
    • → Maltese: karpa
  • Venetan: carpa
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: ⇒ càrpena
  • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: chierpa, chièrpa
  • Ligurian: carpa
  • Lombard: ⇒ carpen
  • Piedmontese: carpa
  • Romagnol: chêrpa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Northern:
    • Franco-Provençal: cârpa
    • Old French: carpe (see there for further descendants)
  • Southern:
    • Catalan: carpa
    • Old Occitan: escarpa
      • Occitan: escarpa, carpa
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: carpa
  • Asturian: carpa
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: carpa
    • Galician: carpa
    • Portuguese: carpa
  • Spanish: carpa (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

• Early: (or directly from Proto-West Germanic)
  • →? Middle Dutch: carpe, carpere
    • Dutch: karper (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Middle Low German: karpe (see there for further descendants)
• Later:
  • → Esperanto: karpo
    • → Ido: karpo
  • → Interlingua: carpa

References

• "carpa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin carpa, from a Germanic language, probably Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍀𐌰 (*karpa).

Pronunciation

 

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.pɐ/ [ˈkah.pɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁ.pɐ/ [ˈkaχ.pɐ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɻ.pɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾ.pɐ/

• Hyphenation: car‧pa

Noun

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. carp (any fish of the family Cyprinidae)

Further reading

• “carpa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “carpa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

A tent for events, party

A tent for camping

The Common Carp (Cyrprinus carpio)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾpa/ [ˈkaɾ.pa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɾpa
• Syllabification: car‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua karpa.

Noun

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. tent (for events, party, circus)
2. (Latin America) tent (for camping)

   Synonym: (Spain) tienda de campaña

3. (theater) a kind of comedic and musical theatre, under a tent

Descendants

• → Catalan: carpa

See also

• tienda f
• toldo m

Etymology 2

Inherited from Late Latin carpa.

Noun

carpa f (plural carpas)

1. carp (fish)

Derived terms

• carpa dorada

Descendants

• Palenquero: kappa
• → Basque: karpa
• → Cebuano: karpa
• → Tagalog: karpa

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

carpa

1. inflection of carpir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “carpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Cyprinus carpio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• carpa (circo) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• carpas (teatro en México) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es