Carpentier
Carpentier is a Norman-Picard surname, variant form of French Charpentier and is similar to the English Carpenter, that is borrowed from Norman. In Basse Normandie, the most common form is Lecarpentier.
| Pronunciation | Kar' pen ti ar |
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| Meaning | worker or fixer of wood, builder of wood |
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| Variant form(s) | Carpenter (surname), Zimmermann, Zimerman, Zimmerman, Charpentier |
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.
Carpentier may refer to:
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