Carpentier

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Carpentier
PronunciationKar' pen ti ar
Origin
Meaningworker or fixer of wood, builder of wood
Other names
Variant form(s) Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Charpentier

Carpentier is a Norman-Picard surname, [1] variant form of French Charpentier [2] and is similar to the English Carpenter, that is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier. [3]

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The words carpentier, charpentier, carpenter are ultimately from Late Latin; carpentarius "artifex" or "wainwright", equivalent to Latin carpent(um) "two wheeled carriage" ( < Celtic (Gaulish) **carbanton; cf. OIr carpad "chariot") + suffix -arius - ARY; see ER2. [4]

Carpentier may refer to:

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References

  1. ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Carpentier
  2. ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Charpentier
  3. ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Lecarpentier
  4. ↑ Combined from several sources including: Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books and "Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition by Oxford University Press.
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