Carpentier
| Carpentier | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Pronunciation | Kar' pen ti ar |
| Meaning | worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood |
| Related names | 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]
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:
Notable people
- Alain Carpentier (born 1933) French heart surgeon
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) Cuban writer and musicologist
- Charles F. Carpentier (1896-1964), American politician
- Donald D. Carpentier (1931-1982), American politician
- Édouard Carpentier (1926-2010) French professional wrestler
- Évariste Carpentier (1845-1922) Belgian painter
- Georges Carpentier (1894–1975) French boxer
- Horace Carpentier (1824–1918) lawyer and first mayor of Oakland, California
- Jean-Baptiste Le Carpentier (1719-1829) French political activist from Normandy
- Jules Carpentier (1851–1921) French engineer and inventor
- Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977) French military officer
- Marguerite Jeanne Carpentier (1886–1965) French painter and sculptor
- Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier (Maritie 1922–2002, Gilbert 1920–2000), married French TV producers
- Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier 1709 - 1773 Architect, son of a carpenter
- Patrick Carpentier (born 1971) Canadian race car driver
- Pieter de Carpentier (c. 1586–1659) Dutch or Flemish administrator of the Dutch East India Company
- Prudent Carpentier (born 1922) Canadian politician
Fictional characters
- Allen Carpentier, protagonist in Niven & Pournelle's Inferno (novel)
See also
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- All pages beginning with "Carpentier"
- All pages with a title containing Carpentier
References
- ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Carpentier
- ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Charpentier
- ↑ Géopatronyme : repartition by number of birth and French départements of the surname Lecarpentier
- ↑ 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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