carp
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English carpe (late 14th century), via Old French carpe from a surmised Vulgar Latin *carpa (which is also the source of Italian carpa). The word is of Germanic origin, cognate with Old High German karpho. An East Germanic origin (unrecorded Gothic *karpa) has been proposed, as the fish was introduced from the Danube.[1]
NounEdit
carp (plural carp or carps)
- Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
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Etymology 2Edit
From Old Norse karpa (“to boast, brag”),[1] karp (“bragging”); meaning later changed to "find fault with, carp at" due to influence of Latin carpō.
VerbEdit
carp (third-person singular simple present carps, present participle carping, simple past and past participle carped)
- To complain about a fault; to harp on.
- (obsolete) To say; to tell.
- (obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.
- 27 December 1591, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Walter Raleigh
- and with your good countenance protect against the malice of evil mouths, which are always wide open to carp at and misconstrue my simple meaning
- 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], OCLC 1154883115, (please specify the page number):
- My honest homely Words were carp'd, and censur'd
- 27 December 1591, Edmund Spenser, letter to Sir Walter Raleigh
TranslationsEdit
To complain about a fault
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “carp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
carp m (plural carps)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “carp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
carp n (uncountable)