Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese carpir, from Latin carpere (to tear off).

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carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpín, past participle carpido)
carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpim or carpi, past participle carpido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (dated, textiles) to fluff up
  2. (dated, textiles) to card
    Synonyms: carmear, carpear
  3. to tear off the hair
  4. to weep, to cry, to bewail
  5. to mourn

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese carpir, from Latin carpere (to tear off), from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (to pluck, harvest).

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  • Hyphenation: car‧pir

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carpir (no first-person singular present, no present subjunctive, third-person singular present carpe, first-person singular preterite carpi, past participle carpido)

  1. to mourn
  2. to weep
  3. to weed (to remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area)

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin carpere.

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  • IPA(key): /kaɾˈpiɾ/ [kaɾˈpiɾ]
  • Rhymes: -iɾ
  • Syllabification: car‧pir

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carpir (first-person singular present carpo, first-person singular preterite carpí, past participle carpido)

  1. to weed; to hoe

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