carpo
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carpo m
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carpo m (plural carpos)
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carpo
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).
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carpo m (plural carpi)
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- carpo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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carpo
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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.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.poː/, [ˈkärpoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkar.po/, [ˈkärpo]
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carpō (present infinitive carpere, perfect active carpsī, supine carptum); third conjugation
- (literally) to pluck, pick, harvest
- 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.
- […] and she tore off her hair and her cheeks,
- […] crīnemque genāsque
- 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.
- The parent's eyes are more intensely punished
- Oculī parentis pūnientur ācrius
- (textiles) to spin
- 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.
- Be wise, make wine, and in a short time,
- Sapiās, vīna liquēs, et spatiō brevī
- 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?
- Carpere sēcūrās quis iam iubet Aesona noctēs?
- to revile, criticize, slander, carp at
- 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.
- Paulum, cui ipsī quoque sē conparāre ērubuissent, obtrectātiō carpsit.
- 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.
- Don't ever criticize what someone says or does,
- (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.
- Relinquēbātur Caesarī nihil, nisi utī equitātū agmen adversāriōrum male habēret et carperet.
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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
- to harass the rear: novissimos carpere
- “carpo”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
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carpo m (plural carpos)
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- (carpus): capitato, escafoide, hamato, osso piramidal, osso pisiforme, osso semilunar, trapézio, trapezoide
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Borrowed from Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).
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carpo m (plural carpos)
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Etymology 2 edit
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carpo
Further reading edit
- “carpo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014