carpio

See also: Carpio, carpió, and ĉarpio

Latin

Alternative forms

• carpō, carphō

Etymology

Ultimately from an old Teutonic source, cognate with English carp. Used later by Linnaeus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pi.oː/, [ˈkärpioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.pi.o/, [ˈkärpio]

Noun

carpiō m (genitive carpiōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) carp

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carpiō	carpiōnēs
Genitive	carpiōnis	carpiōnum
Dative	carpiōnī	carpiōnibus
Accusative	carpiōnem	carpiōnēs
Ablative	carpiōne	carpiōnibus
Vocative	carpiō	carpiōnēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Carpio (obsolete), Cyprinus carpio, , ,

References

• carpio 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)
• “carpio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “carpio”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill