carpo
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Aromanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
carpo
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Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
carpo m (plural carpos)
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).
Noun[edit]
carpo m (plural carpi)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- carpo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb[edit]
carpo
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *karpō, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.
Compare Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), English harvest, sharp, shear.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
carpō (present infinitive carpere, perfect active carpsī, supine carptum); third conjugation
- I pluck, pick, harvest
- 1st c. AD, Ovid, Metamorphoses IX.380-381:
- Stagna tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flores, / et frutices omnes corpus putet esse dearum.
- (as a curse) May he fear the ponds, and may he not pick flowers from the trees, thinking all trees are bodies of goddesses.
- Stagna tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flores, / et frutices omnes corpus putet esse dearum.
- I tear off, tear out, rend
- 1st c. AD, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica VIII.7-8:
- crinemque genasque / aegra per antiqui carpsit vestigia somni
- and she tore off her hair and her cheeks, sorrowful, amid the traces of her previous sleep
- crinemque genasque / aegra per antiqui carpsit vestigia somni
- I spin (a material)
- 1st c. AD, Virgil, Georgica IV.334-335:
- Milesia uellera nymphae / carpebant
- the nymphs were spinning Milesian wool
- Milesia uellera nymphae / carpebant
- I make good use of, enjoy something (usually a period of time)
- 1st c. AD, Horace, Carmina I.11:
- Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.- 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.
- Be wise, make wine, and in a short time,
- Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
- 1st c. AD, Virgil, Aeneid VII.413-414:
- Tectis hic Turnus in altis / iam mediam nigra carpebat nocte quietem.
- Here and now, in a high floor, Turnus was enjoying the middle of a dark night's calm.
- Tectis hic Turnus in altis / iam mediam nigra carpebat nocte quietem.
- 1st c. AD, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica V.48:
- Carpere securas quis iam iubet Aesona noctes?
- Who is now telling Aeson to enjoy his peaceful nights?
- Carpere securas quis iam iubet Aesona noctes?
- I revile, criticize, slander, carp at
- 1st c. BC, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 45.35.5:
- Paulum, cui ipsi quoque se conparare erubuissent, obtrectatio carpsit.
- He slandered Paulus in his attack (literally "[his] disparagement tore off Paulus"), a [good] man that people would have blushed to compare themselves to.
- Paulum, cui ipsi quoque se conparare erubuissent, obtrectatio carpsit.
- I weaken somebody, harass an enemy
- 1st c. BC, Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili I.63:
- Relinquebatur Caesari nihil, nisi uti equitatu agmen adversariorum male haberet et carperet.
- No option remained to Cesar, other than annoying and weakening the enemy army with the cavalry.
- Relinquebatur Caesari nihil, nisi uti equitatu agmen adversariorum male haberet et carperet.
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References[edit]
- 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, 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
- to harass the rear: novissimos carpere
- carpo in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carpo m (plural carpos)
Meronyms[edit]
- (carpus): capitato, escafoide, hamato, osso piramidal, osso pisiforme, osso semilunar, trapézio, trapezoide
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
carpo m (plural carpos)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “carpo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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