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carpo

See also: Carpo, carpo-, and -carpo

Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

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carpo m

  1. fruit
  2. harvest

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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carpo m (plural carpos)

  1. (anatomy) carpus (entire wrist)
  2. (anatomy) carpal (any bone of the wrist)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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carpo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkar.po/
  • Rhymes: -arpo
  • Hyphenation: càr‧po

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

Noun

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carpo m (plural carpi)

  1. (anatomy) carpus
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Further reading

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  • carpo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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carpo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of carpare

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Italic *karpō, from Proto-Indo-European *kerp-.

Compare Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), English harvest, sharp, shear.

Verb

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carpō (present infinitive carpere, perfect active carpsī, supine carptum); third conjugation

  1. (literally) to pluck, pick, harvest
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.380–381:
      Stāgna tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flōrēs,
      et fruticēs omnēs corpus putet esse deārum.
      May he fear the ponds, and may he not pick flowers from the trees,
      and may he think all trees to be bodies of goddesses.
  2. to tear off, tear out, rend, separate a whole into single parts, to cut to pieces, divide
    Synonyms: discindō, scindō, findō, discerpō, distineō, discīdō, incīdō, intercīdō, distrahō
    Antonyms: cōgō, congerō, coniungō, contrahō
    • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 8.7–8:
      […] crīnemque genāsque
      aegra per antīquī carpsit vestīgia somnī.
      […] and she tore off her hair and her cheeks,
      sorrowful, amid the traces of her previous sleep.
    • c. 400 CE, Prudentius, Liber Peristephanon 10.694–695:
      Oculī parentis pūnientur ācrius
      quam sī cruentae membra carpant ungulae.
      The parent's eyes are more intensely punished
      than if bloody nails were to tear at her limbs.
  3. (textiles) to spin
  4. to make good use of, enjoy something (usually a period of time)
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 1.11.6–8:
      Sapiās, vīna liquēs, et spatiō brevī
      spem longam resecēs. Dum loquimur, fūgerit invida
      aetās: carpe diem, quam minimum crēdula posterō.
      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.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 7.413–414:
      Tēctīs hīc Turnus in altīs
      iam mediam nigrā carpēbat nocte quiētem.
      Here and now, in a high floor, Turnus
      was enjoying his rest in the middle of the dark night.
    • c. 90 CE, Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.48:
      Carpere sēcūrās quis iam iubet Aesona noctēs?
      Who is now telling Aeson to enjoy his peaceful nights?
  5. (figuratively) of the effect of plucking: to tear or wear away or apart, pull to pieces, consume, waste
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.1-2:
      At rēgīna, gravī iamdūdum saucia cūrā,
      volnus alit vēnīs, et caecō carpitur ignī.
      But the queen, long since troubled by her deep anxiety, nurtures [love’s] wound with her life-blood, and is being consumed by a hidden fire.
      (In other words, Dido feels the intense emotion and physical sensations of falling in love.)
  6. to revile, criticize, slander, carp at
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 62:
      At lubet innūptīs fīctō tē carpere questū.
      Quid tum, sī carpunt, tacitā quem mente requīrunt?
      But maidens like to chide you with feigned complaint.
      What then, if they chide him whom in their secret heart they desire?
    • 59 BC–AD 17, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 45.35.5:
      Paulum, cui ipsī quoque sē conparāre ērubuissent, obtrectātiō carpsit.
      Criticism reviled Paulus, a man that people would have blushed to compare themselves to.
    • 3rd or 4th C. CE, Pseudo-Cato, Disticha Catonis 3.7:
      Alterius dictum aut factum nē carpseris umquam,
      exemplō similī nē tē dērīdeat alter.
      Don't ever criticize what someone says or does,
      lest another laugh at you when you do something similar.
  7. (military) to weaken, harass an enemy
    • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.63:
      Relinquēbātur Caesarī nihil, nisi utī equitātū agmen adversāriōrum male habēret et carperet.
      No option remained to Cesar, other than annoying and harassing the enemy army with the cavalry.
Conjugation
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   Conjugation of carpō (third conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present carpō carpis carpit carpimus carpitis carpunt
imperfect carpēbam carpēbās carpēbat carpēbāmus carpēbātis carpēbant
future carpam carpēs carpet carpēmus carpētis carpent
perfect carpsī carpsistī carpsit carpsimus carpsistis carpsērunt,
carpsēre
pluperfect carpseram carpserās carpserat carpserāmus carpserātis carpserant
future perfect carpserō carpseris carpserit carpserimus carpseritis carpserint
passive present carpor carperis,
carpere 		carpitur carpimur carpiminī carpuntur
imperfect carpēbar carpēbāris,
carpēbāre 		carpēbātur carpēbāmur carpēbāminī carpēbantur
future carpar carpēris,
carpēre 		carpētur carpēmur carpēminī carpentur
perfect carptus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect carptus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect carptus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present carpam carpās carpat carpāmus carpātis carpant
imperfect carperem carperēs carperet carperēmus carperētis carperent
perfect carpserim carpserīs carpserit carpserīmus carpserītis carpserint
pluperfect carpsissem carpsissēs carpsisset carpsissēmus carpsissētis carpsissent
passive present carpar carpāris,
carpāre 		carpātur carpāmur carpāminī carpantur
imperfect carperer carperēris,
carperēre 		carperētur carperēmur carperēminī carperentur
perfect carptus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect carptus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — carpe — — carpite —
future — carpitō carpitō — carpitōte carpuntō
passive present — carpere — — carpiminī —
future — carpitor carpitor — — carpuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives carpere carpsisse carptūrum esse carpī carptum esse carptum īrī
participles carpēns — carptūrus — carptus carpendus,
carpundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
carpendī carpendō carpendum carpendō carptum carptū
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Descendants

Further reading

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  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
  • “carpo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2]

Etymology 2

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Noun

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carpō

  1. dative/ablative singular of carpus

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

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Noun

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carpo m (plural carpos)

  1. (anatomy) carpus
  2. wrist
    Synonyms: punho, pulso

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾpo/ [ˈkaɾ.po]
  • Rhymes: -aɾpo
  • Syllabification: car‧po

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

Noun

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carpo m (plural carpos)

  1. carpus
  2. (anatomy) wrist
    Synonym: muñeca
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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carpo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

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