carpo

From Greek καρπός (karpós).

carpo m

1. fruit
2. harvest

• poamã
• frut / fructu

carpo m (plural carpos)

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

• metacarpo

carpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).

carpo m (plural carpi)

1. (anatomy) carpus

• carpale

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpare

• capro, copra, parco, parcò, porca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkar.po]

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

Cognate with Old Church Slavonic чрѣти (črěti, “to draw, scoop”). Also compare Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”) and κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), English harvest, sharp, shear.

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
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.334–335:

     […] Mīlēsia vellera nymphae
     carpēbant […]

     […] the nymphs were spinning
     Milesian wool […]

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.

• “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]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carpō

1. dative/ablative singular of carpus

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

carpo m (plural carpos)

1. (anatomy) carpus
2. wrist

   Synonyms: punho, pulso

• (carpus): capitato, escafoide, hamato, osso piramidal, osso pisiforme, osso semilunar, trapézio, trapezoide

• carpal
• mão
• metacarpo

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

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

carpo m (plural carpos)

1. carpus
2. (anatomy) wrist

   Synonym: muñeca

carpo

1. first-person singular present indicative of carpir

• “carpo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024